{"id":802,"date":"2005-07-25T13:35:43","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T11:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/archives\/802"},"modified":"2005-07-25T13:35:43","modified_gmt":"2005-07-25T11:35:43","slug":"listen-a-compilation-of-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/802","title":{"rendered":"Listen: A compilation of friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>I listened<\/b><br \/>\nas she told me the stories of her life<br \/>\nthe struggle against demons that I could not imagine,<br \/>\nand the slow effort to rise up again.<br \/>\n<b>I listened<\/b><br \/>\nas he unburdened his soul<br \/>\nexplaining why he did what he did<br \/>\nhis confusion in the midst of decision-making,<br \/>\nand the peace in his voice at the end.<br \/>\n<b>I listened<\/b><br \/>\nas she talked about her love<br \/>\nlaughing as she explained exactly what it was,<br \/>\nhow it was that they arrived at this point.<br \/>\n<b>I listened<\/b><br \/>\nas his voice changed when he talked about a girl<br \/>\nthat he never met, but wanted to get to know,<br \/>\nand how she changed his life.<br \/>\n<b>I listened<\/b><br \/>\nas her voice dropped when she explained<br \/>\nthe circumstances that forced her to this place,<br \/>\nand tears filled her eyes.<br \/>\n<b>I listened<\/b><br \/>\nas he told jokes to lighten my mood<br \/>\neven as he struggled with the anxiety of not knowing,<br \/>\nand the fear of change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I listened as she told me the stories of her life the struggle against demons that I could not imagine, and the slow effort to rise up again. I listened as he unburdened his soul explaining why he did what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}