{"id":1275,"date":"2007-10-03T19:17:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T00:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/writings\/2007\/10\/03\/through-the-pain\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T19:17:26","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T00:17:26","slug":"through-the-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2007\/10\/through-the-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Through the Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He sits on his barstool<br \/>\nwith tears in his eyes;<br \/>\nCigar in hand,<br \/>\nnursing a beer.<\/p>\n<p>He feels like death warmed over,<br \/>\nhasn&#8217;t slept for days;<br \/>\nPain in his heart,<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s a broken man.<\/p>\n<p>His wife hurt him &#8211;<br \/>\ninjured his heart;<br \/>\nHe loves her still,<br \/>\nbut doesn&#8217;t trust her anymore.<\/p>\n<p>His brothers standby him<br \/>\n&amp; give him of their strength;<br \/>\nHe may stumble &amp; fall,<br \/>\nbut their holding him up.<\/p>\n<p>If he can forgive &amp;<br \/>\nshe can stay faithful;<br \/>\nflowers can bloom from<br \/>\nthe ground again.<\/p>\n<p>He stands tall &#8211; sure in himself,<br \/>\nlooking into the future &#8211;<br \/>\nblood standing beside &amp;<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s ready to take on the storm.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">dedicated to Jonas Sosa Jr.<br \/>\nwil becker<br \/>\n1996.07.14\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/us\/\" rel=\"license\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/images\/public\/somerights20.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He sits on his barstool with tears in his eyes; Cigar in hand, nursing a beer. He feels like death warmed over, hasn&#8217;t slept for days; Pain in his heart, He&#8217;s a broken man. His wife hurt him &#8211; injured his heart; He loves her still, but doesn&#8217;t trust her anymore. His brothers standby him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}