{"id":23,"date":"2007-03-19T08:32:46","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T13:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2007-11-13T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T16:36:00","slug":"my-perfect-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"My Perfect Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny in life how things change.\u00a0  One day, everything seems to be going according to plan.\u00a0  The next, it&#8217;s like trying to drive a ship through a hurricane.<\/p>\n<p>I am not a good captain.\u00a0  My ship is in the middle of a hurricane and I don&#8217;t know how to right it. I don&#8217;t even know how to ask to help. I make more mistakes than I do things right. Sometimes, I wonder what is wrong with me.<\/p>\n<p>There has to be an end to the hurricane&#8230; but what will I find when I get there?\u00a0  Peace?  Pain?  Love?  Hurt?  I just don&#8217;t know.  I know what I want to find&#8230; but will I ever find it?  I&#8217;d be lying if I said that I didn&#8217;t have my doubts. I have the feeling that it&#8217;ll be just like every other time, I find that which I did not want to find.<\/p>\n<p>I often wished that life were more simple, like me.  And that in school, they&#8217;d hand out a &#8220;Guide to Life&#8221; pamphlet, then maybe I wouldn&#8217;t be so lost all of the time.\u00a0  How can such a smart guy like me be so dumb and ignorant?<\/p>\n<p>I guess that&#8217;s enough self-loathing for one day.\u00a0  It&#8217;s time for me to head back to Georgia and prepare my house for the next phase of my life&#8230;selling my house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny in life how things change.\u00a0 One day, everything seems to be going according to plan.\u00a0 The next, it&#8217;s like trying to drive a ship through a hurricane. I am not a good captain.\u00a0 My ship is in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=23\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}