{"id":466,"date":"2018-04-15T21:55:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T01:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/?p=466"},"modified":"2018-04-15T21:55:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T01:55:55","slug":"continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/2018\/04\/15\/continue\/","title":{"rendered":"CONTINUE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by AJANI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">She pressed my start button. I\u2019m awake. It\u2019s time to start. Then she goes through my walkthrough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">It\u2019s my turn. My turn to start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">I\u2019m walking and learning to play my own game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">I\u2019m getting better, learning movements, leveling up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">(I\u2019ve got my own style, moving on my own, growing older.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">There\u2019s always a new challenge. Some the game makes your life hell, make you want to quit. You feel like there\u2019s no way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">Maybe it\u2019s time to stop. Maybe we should end it. We\u2019re faced with challenges. There are no second chances, no places to go, no online walkthrough to help us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">Eventually we die. No one could care. No one could notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">Especially myself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">No one should be dragged down by one person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">Eventually we head back to our beginning, except unnoticed, down in the dirt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">And unlike in a video game, there\u2019s no restart button.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">I won\u2019t ever be faced with those large questioning letters:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: left\">CONTINUE?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by AJANI<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">She pressed my start button. I\u2019m awake. It\u2019s time to start. Then she goes through my walkthrough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">It\u2019s my turn. My turn to start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">I\u2019m walking and learning to play my own game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">I\u2019m getting better, learning movements, leveling up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">(I\u2019ve got my own style, moving on my [&#8230;]<\/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-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","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=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}