{"id":7086,"date":"2013-06-14T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingstar.mx\/?p=7086"},"modified":"2024-01-15T17:56:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T17:56:56","slug":"pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/2013\/06\/14\/pursuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
I dreamt that I was being pursued down a staircase that went down endlessly in a spiral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There was no escaping whatever was chasing me.<\/em> And whatever I was running from was only a few inches away from nipping at my heels.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I gave up. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I got down on my knees and said the \u201cserenity prayer.\u201d I heard a voice telling me \u201cWelcome home\u201d just before I woke up safe in bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I dreamt that I was being pursued down a staircase that went down endlessly in a spiral. There was no escaping whatever was chasing me.The staircase was dark.There was no end in sight.I ran.And I ran.And I ran. And whatever I was running from was only a few inches away from nipping at my heels. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12185,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions\/12185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The staircase was dark.<\/em>
There was no end in sight.<\/em>
I ran.<\/em>
And I ran.<\/em>
And I ran.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.<\/em>
The courage to change the things I can.<\/em>
And the wisdom to know the difference.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n