{"id":101,"date":"2008-03-20T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/wp\/?p=101"},"modified":"2008-03-20T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T18:16:00","slug":"blinded-by-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Blinded by the light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thechristys.net\/uploaded_images\/feet-725139.JPG\"><img style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thechristys.net\/uploaded_images\/feet-725133.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>It started pretty well. We had the &#8220;really good&#8221; <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">complementary<\/span> breakfast as usual. Then we started making plans for the rest of the day. Maybe it was 24\/7 in close contact, altitude, cold, or maybe the way the stars were aligned. In any case, <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">shall<\/span> we say, we didn&#8217;t exactly mesh like a well oiled machine.<\/p>\n<p>We all have moments where things don&#8217;t really work out the way we want. Perspective is at a premium. Arguments in these situations remind me a lot of songs from your youth, they sounded great at the time, really conveyed an emotion, but when you listen to it replayed with the <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">advantage<\/span> of time passed, the words can sound pretty goofy. You wonder how they seemed to fit so well at the time yet failed so miserably the test of time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Madman drummers bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat<br \/>In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat<br \/>With a boulder on my shoulder, <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">feelin<\/span>&#8216; kinda older, I tripped the merry-go-round<br \/>With this very <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_4\">unpleasin<\/span>&#8216;, <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_5\">sneezin<\/span>&#8216; and <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_6\">wheezin<\/span>, the calliope crashed to the ground<br \/>The calliope crashed to the ground<br \/>But she was&#8230;Blinded by the light . . .&#8221;<br \/>&#8211; Bruce Springsteen<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p> It started pretty well. We had the &#8220;really good&#8221; complementary breakfast as usual. Then we started making plans for the rest of the day. Maybe it was 24\/7 in close contact, altitude, cold, or maybe the way the stars were aligned. In any case, shall we say, we didn&#8217;t exactly mesh like a well [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}