{"id":293,"date":"2017-03-22T19:28:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T23:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/?p=293"},"modified":"2017-03-22T19:28:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T23:28:52","slug":"fearlessness-or-lack-thereof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/2017\/03\/22\/fearlessness-or-lack-thereof\/","title":{"rendered":"FEARLESSNESS (OR LACK THEREOF)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by LYNAE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hey, y\u2019all.<br \/>\nMy birthday is November 25th,<br \/>\nThanksgiving, but not every year.<br \/>\nI\u2019m 5\u2019 3\u2019\u2019 on the dot.<br \/>\nTall enough to not be a dwarf,<br \/>\nShort enough to not qualify for basketball.<br \/>\nI weigh 141 pounds, but really 139 without a jacket.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t like almonds<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019m really scared of heights.<br \/>\nI\u2019m scared of a lot of things.<br \/>\nI\u2019m scared of spiders, I\u2019m scared of walking<br \/>\nalone in the dark,<br \/>\nI\u2019m scared of getting hurt<br \/>\nor getting too attached,<br \/>\nbut I\u2019m also scared of drowning.<br \/>\nReally, I\u2019m scared of <em>everything.<br \/>\n<\/em>I\u2019m scared of what others think of me.<br \/>\nI\u2019m scared of rejection.<br \/>\nI\u2019m scared of disappointing others,<br \/>\nOr being too mean.<br \/>\nI really, really hate when I hurt others\u2019 feelings.<br \/>\nBut I do a lot of great things.<br \/>\nI\u2019m a great listener and I\u2019m good at math,<br \/>\nI\u2019m also good at problem solving.<br \/>\nAnd sooo many other things<br \/>\nLike letting go\u2014 I\u2019m really good at that,<br \/>\nbut I\u2019m really bad at being honest with myself<br \/>\nAnd sharing that I love and care.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s really hard for me because I\u2019m scared.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t like being scared,<br \/>\nbut being fearless makes me nervous.<br \/>\nOh, but something I\u2019m fantastic at?<br \/>\nPretending like I\u2019m not scared at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by LYNAE<\/p>\n<p>Hey, y\u2019all.<br \/> My birthday is November 25th,<br \/> Thanksgiving, but not every year.<br \/> I\u2019m 5\u2019 3\u2019\u2019 on the dot.<br \/> Tall enough to not be a dwarf,<br \/> Short enough to not qualify for basketball.<br \/> I weigh 141 pounds, but really 139 without a jacket.<br \/> I don\u2019t like almonds<br [...]\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}