{"id":33750,"date":"2012-09-23T04:42:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T04:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/09\/23\/its-not-a-crutch\/"},"modified":"2012-09-23T04:42:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T04:42:40","slug":"its-not-a-crutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/09\/23\/its-not-a-crutch\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s not a crutch. >.>"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can it not be? A thing that’s so familiar a part of you — we rant and rave about manipulating people, about guilt trips and give and take. How can you not, even without thinking about it, lean on it as a way to escape things that are hard, to gain attention, to … I’ve used mine as a reason to butt into lives that I have no business in. This morning I was using it as a crutch for my slothful sleeping habits.<\/p>\n

Do you know what it is like without it? I don’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How can it not be? A thing that’s so familiar a part of you — we rant and rave about manipulating people, about guilt trips and give and take. How can you not, even without thinking about it, lean on it as a way to escape things that are hard, to gain attention, to … … Continue reading It’s not a crutch. >.><\/span> →<\/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":[4,3238,414],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33750"}],"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=33750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}