{"id":256,"date":"2002-10-31T23:27:51","date_gmt":"2002-11-01T07:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2002-10-31T23:27:51","modified_gmt":"2002-11-01T07:27:51","slug":"the-silver-lining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"the silver lining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s been a very long time since i&#8217;ve realize how much i&#8217;ve taken life for granted. all the amazing things in my life that i grown so accustom to because &#8216;god damn it&#8217;, i earned it. the fallacy that my sense of security is any bettter than others  because it wasn&#8217;t given to me. like my higher states of rationalization makes me feel more secure about concepts inherently flawed. it&#8217;s not so much as an identity crisis but a kick in the guts that all i&#8217;ve accomplished is simply a shelter against the very concepts that i want to embrace. a great man once said that a country can&#8217;t called for peace while stockpiling arms of destruction. and no less the success of material life is a stockpile of false securities that will only more difficult to disarm. no there is no peace at the bottom of a glass or on a woman&#8217;s breast. drum roll please. thank matt johnson&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And have you ever wanted something so badly<br \/>\nthat it possessed your body &#038; your soul<br \/>\nthrough the night &#038; through the day<br \/>\nuntil you finally get it!<br \/>\nAnd then you realise that it wasn&#8217;t what you wanted after all.<br \/>\nAnd then those selfsame sickly little thoughts<br \/>\nnow go &#038; attach themselves to something&#8230;.<br \/>\n&#8230;.or somebody&#8230;.new!<br \/>\nAnd the whole goddamn thing starts all over again.<br \/>\nWell, I&#8217;ve been crushing the symptoms but I can&#8217;t locate the<br \/>\ncause.<br \/>\nCould God really be so cruel?<br \/>\nTo give us feelings that could never be fulfilled. Baby!<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got my sights set on you. I&#8217;ve got my sight set on you<br \/>\nAnd someday, someday, someday, you&#8217;ll come my way.<br \/>\nBut when you put your arms around me<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be looking over your shoulder for something new<br \/>\n&#8217;cause I ain&#8217;t ever found peace upon the breast of a girl<br \/>\nI ain&#8217;t ever found peace with the religion of the world<br \/>\nI ain&#8217;t ever found peace at the bottom of a glass<br \/>\nsometimes it seems the more I ask for the less I receive<br \/>\nsometimes it seems the more I ask for the less I receive<br \/>\nThe only true freedom is freedom from the heart&#8217;s desires<br \/>\n&#038; the only true happiness&#8230;.this way lies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s been a very long time since i&#8217;ve realize how much i&#8217;ve taken life for granted. all the amazing things in my life that i grown so accustom to because &#8216;god damn it&#8217;, i earned it. the fallacy that my sense of security is any bettter than others because it wasn&#8217;t given to me. like my higher states of rationalization makes me feel more secure about concepts inherently flawed. it&#8217;s not so much as an identity crisis but a kick in the guts that all i&#8217;ve accomplished is simply a shelter against the very concepts that i [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-random"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb4m0Z-48","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}