{"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 She pressed my start button. I\u2019m awake. It\u2019s time to start. Then she goes through my walkthrough. It\u2019s my turn. My turn to start. I\u2019m walking and learning to play my own game. I\u2019m getting better, learning movements, leveling up. (I\u2019ve got my own style, moving on my own, growing older.) There\u2019s always [&hellip;]<\/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}]}}