{"id":57,"date":"2007-11-08T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcrampton.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2021-03-06T14:20:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T19:20:56","slug":"on-being-a-coward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"On being a coward."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like a coward.  There are those that I need to, want to, ask to untie their knots, but I find myself looking for the &#8220;best time.&#8221;  Or I avoid doing it while they&#8217;re at work, because they don&#8217;t deserve having their faith in she and I destroyed in front of co-workers.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I&#8217;m avoiding it.  I feel like I&#8217;m being a coward again, when these are the obvious next steps to moving forward.  Being back in the city will make it easier, but nothing is going to make this easy.  It shouldn&#8217;t be easy.  It was designed not to be easy, so that the marriage could not end lightly.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why the knots were put there in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>I want to move on from this.  I want to heal.  I want not to be broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like a coward. There are those that I need to, want to, ask to untie their knots, but I find myself looking for the &#8220;best time.&#8221; Or I avoid doing it while they&#8217;re at work, because they don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=57\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-blogger"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7374,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/7374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}