{"id":992,"date":"2002-04-27T06:19:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-27T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/wordpress\/?p=992"},"modified":"2002-04-27T06:19:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-27T13:19:00","slug":"38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/uncategorized\/38","title":{"rendered":"38"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is it &#8211; if I can keep my heart from jumping out of my chest.<\/p>\n<p>This is the part where we seperate the fantesy from the reality. This is where I press &#8216;play&#8217;, and find out if the dream is real or if I&#8217;ve gone completely, utterly mad.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, it&#8217;ll be one hell of a ride.<\/p>\n<p>About to burn 1400 miles across southern california.. dying dinosoars and cranked stereo, passing scenery and passing thoughts. Decision time, boy-o &#8211; you can roll the dice, or you can play it safe. You know the odds are miserable, but you know that if you win, it&#8217;s fuck-all big.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what made me become aware of this huge gaping hole in my existance. No, that&#8217;s not true, I have a pretty good idea. But I&#8217;m not ready to talk about it yet. Maybe in a while. Maybe not ever. Maybe I&#8217;m about to get burned like no one has ever gotten burned before. Maybe I really am insane &#8211; betting my entire life on one fall of the dice.<\/p>\n<p>Well, at least if I lose it won&#8217;t actually kill me.<\/p>\n<p>This is the kind of thing you can&#8217;t really share with anyone &#8211; the true depth and bredth of insanity has to reside in my head alone, push my body alone to it&#8217;s utter limits. Conflicted. Play it safe, or grab for a dream? Do I even have any choice any more? I don&#8217;t really think I do. I think all choice left when I took the red pill. <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t shake the mental image of accelerating towards a brick wall. But I know, when the coin is in the air, what I&#8217;m hoping. There&#8217;s no doubt at all about that. The question is how to get there from here, with the least amount of people hurt.<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s a path from here to there at all &#8211; something I tend to be a little doubtful of.<\/p>\n<p>Top of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is it &#8211; if I can keep my heart from jumping out of my chest. This is the part where we seperate the fantesy from the reality. This is where I press &#8216;play&#8217;, and find out if the dream is real or if I&#8217;ve gone completely, utterly mad. Either way, it&#8217;ll be one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}