{"id":1026,"date":"2007-01-26T20:07:10","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T02:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2011-04-08T04:09:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T09:09:24","slug":"the-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"The Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I look at the ceiling because the door is closed.<br \/>\nThe path I saw in our future has been diverted.<br \/>\nI still hold her hand.<br \/>\nHer hand still holds mine.<br \/>\nBut they will never hold the same way again.<\/p>\n<p>A weight on my shoulders,<br \/>\nA dark cloud over my head,<br \/>\nPart of me wants to lie down and cry.<br \/>\nI hear her voice ring,<br \/>\n\u201cThere is always light at the end of the tunnel.\u201d<br \/>\nHowever dim it might seem, the light is there.<\/p>\n<p>A token on her finger, a reminder:<br \/>\nNo matter what,<br \/>\nNo matter when,<br \/>\nNo matter how, I will always love you.<\/p>\n<p>Sleep the sleep of angels tonight\u2014<br \/>\nOur door is closed, but many others remain open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I look at the ceiling because the door is closed. The path I saw in our future has been diverted. I still hold her hand. Her hand still holds mine. But they will never hold the same way again. A weight on my shoulders, A dark cloud over my head, Part of me wants to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=1026\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ring&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1muBs-gy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}