{"id":16,"date":"2003-07-15T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-15T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodneycornelius.com\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2003-07-15T21:55:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-15T20:55:00","slug":"16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was just such a bad day at work, that it sapped my energy to be at the beach.  I gave my bottles of wine away and just ran home at top speed.  I just came back to the apartment (I don&#8217;t even have the mental state to clean it, and it&#8217;s kinda messy).  And I just set the CD player to random and then it went to the Sarah McLachlan &#8220;Surfacing&#8221; CD.  And that just kinda pushed me right over the edge.  So if you wanna know how I feel, here are the lyrics:<\/p>\n<p><i>Full of Grace <\/p>\n<p>The winter here&#8217;s cold, and bitter<br \/>\nit&#8217;s chilled us to the bone<br \/>\nwe haven&#8217;t seen the sun for weeks<br \/>\nto long too far from home<br \/>\nI feel just like I&#8217;m sinking<br \/>\nand I claw for solid ground<br \/>\nI&#8217;m pulled down by the undertow<br \/>\nI never thought I could feel so low<br \/>\noh darkness I feel like letting go<\/p>\n<p>If all of the strength and all of the courage<br \/>\ncome and lift me from this place<br \/>\nI know I could love you much better than this<br \/>\nfull of grace<br \/>\nfull of grace<br \/>\nmy love<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s better this way, I said<br \/>\nhaving seen this place before<br \/>\nwhere everything we said and did<br \/>\nhurts us all the more<br \/>\nits just that we stayed, too long<br \/>\nin the same old sickly skin<br \/>\nI&#8217;m pulled down by the undertow<br \/>\nI never thought I could feel so low<br \/>\noh darkness I feel like letting go<\/p>\n<p>If all of the strength<br \/>\nand all of the courage<br \/>\ncome and lift me from this place<br \/>\nI know I could love you much better than this<br \/>\nfull of grace<br \/>\nfull of grace<br \/>\nmy love.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been an afternoon where I could do nothing right, despite my best efforts.  It&#8217;s emotional exhaustion.  Hopefully it passes soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was just such a bad day at work, that it sapped my energy to be at the beach. I gave my bottles of wine away and just ran home at top speed. I just came back to the apartment (I don&#8217;t even have the mental state to clean it, and it&#8217;s kinda messy). And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/?p=16\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rodneycornelius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}