{"id":32228,"date":"2012-11-05T04:49:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T04:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/11\/05\/the-candle-goes-out-the-worlds-a-little-bit\/"},"modified":"2012-11-05T04:49:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T04:49:29","slug":"the-candle-goes-out-the-worlds-a-little-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/11\/05\/the-candle-goes-out-the-worlds-a-little-bit\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The candle goes out<br \/>\nThe world&#8217;s a little bit darker<br \/>\nWhat difference does it make to you<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re looking through me<br \/>\nWhere did I go<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll never know<br \/>\nWe are stardust when the shadow takes us<br \/>\nI&#8217;m never doing this again<br \/>\nNever reaching out again<br \/>\nSo tired of waiting with no goodbyes<br \/>\nTired of silence<br \/>\nTired of lies<\/p>\n<p>Still no job. Still not pretty. Still not liked. Still not wanted. Emily project, epsilon, where are you when I&#8217;m falling? Can barely see to type, hiding my tears in the bath; at thirty-two I should be over this, right? Take your meds little girl, perk up and smile little girl, no one will ever love you again little girl, it&#8217;s how the world is little girl.<\/p>\n<p>How long before I stop pretending people like me, would notice if I was gone? It&#8217;s not a joke, guys; I&#8217;m falling and screaming; this is as loud as I can be. I want your help, but who lets the clingy nightmare in the ohana? No one&#8217;s left behind, but falling in step isn&#8217;t belonging.<\/p>\n<p>Never is, never could be. I&#8217;m too old, I&#8217;m too shy, my life looks too perfect from the outside. Chin up stupid, keep lying and one day you&#8217;ll be a real boy.<\/p>\n<p>Real dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The candle goes out The world&#8217;s a little bit darker What difference does it make to you You&#8217;re looking through me Where did I go You&#8217;ll never know We are stardust when the shadow takes us I&#8217;m never doing this again Never reaching out again So tired of waiting with no goodbyes Tired of silence &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/11\/05\/the-candle-goes-out-the-worlds-a-little-bit\/\" 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":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,33,3906],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32228"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}