{"id":347,"date":"2005-08-24T12:45:28","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T19:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypirate.dreamhosters.com\/wordpress\/?p=347"},"modified":"2005-08-24T12:45:28","modified_gmt":"2005-08-24T19:45:28","slug":"the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/the-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Dam release river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My destination is at the end of a fast moving river. I have no boat to carry me. I must swim.  I cling to a branch, afraid to let go. The longer I hold on, the more tired I become, and the more afraid I am of the river and of the unknown. The water level is lowering quickly. If I don&#8217;t let go now, I will miss my chance.<\/p>\n<p>I let go and float down the river. I keep my feet forward and my head up, and I stop fighting it. I just take a deep breath and I accept whatever comes along. I can&#8217;t fear what I can&#8217;t change. I&#8217;ll just do my best, keep my head above water, and watch out for strainers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My destination is at the end of a fast moving river. I have no boat to carry me. I must swim. I cling to a branch, afraid to let go. The longer I hold on, the more tired I become, and the more afraid I am of the river and of the unknown. The water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}