{"id":2873,"date":"2011-01-21T10:40:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T18:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/?p=2873"},"modified":"2011-01-21T10:40:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T18:40:14","slug":"the-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/2011\/the-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_3563.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2875 aligncenter\" title=\"IMG_3563\" src=\"http:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_3563.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_3563.jpg 427w, https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_3563-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You stand on one side of a bridge<br \/>\nThe other cannot be seen<br \/>\nHidden behind a veil of fog<br \/>\nStretching on indefinitely<br \/>\nAs you place your hand on the railing<br \/>\nYou feel the pull of ghosts at your shirttails<br \/>\nThe whispers in your ears<br \/>\nThe fog\u2019s fingers gently wrapping around you<br \/>\nCaressing your face pulling you step by step<br \/>\nOnto the bridge that will take you away<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You feel consumed by the fog<br \/>\nAs it wraps you in its loving arms<br \/>\nLike a mother and her child<br \/>\nYou feel safe, you feel the calm<br \/>\nThat you never felt before<br \/>\nAs you are pulled step by step<br \/>\nAway from the world you once knew<br \/>\nYou welcome it, accept it<br \/>\nAs your new home<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You feel another pull<br \/>\nas you reach the middle of the bridge<br \/>\nA sadness nipping at your heels<br \/>\nLike a child grasping onto her fathers legs<br \/>\nAs he walks away forever out the door<br \/>\nA heaviness that not even the fog can lift<br \/>\nPulls you back to the edge of a world you have almost forgotten<br \/>\nYou look back over your shoulder<br \/>\nA sorrow only known in this world<br \/>\nMirrors in your eyes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The fog pulls you forward<br \/>\nThose you loved pull you back<br \/>\nYou are lost in the middle<br \/>\nOf two very different worlds<br \/>\nPulled by the sweet numbing of pain<br \/>\nOn one side and on the other<br \/>\nPulled by the sweet feel of pain<br \/>\nTo remind you that you are alive<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There is no going back<br \/>\nOnce you cross the bridge<br \/>\nThere is only silence<br \/>\nOnly a choice to make<br \/>\nTo leave those you loved behind<br \/>\nOr take the chance<br \/>\nTo live again<br \/>\nIn a world that might not be so sweet<br \/>\nBut to feel pain means<br \/>\nThat your heart is still beating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You stand on one side of a bridge The other cannot be seen Hidden behind a veil of fog Stretching on indefinitely As you place your hand on the railing You feel the pull of ghosts at your shirttails The whispers in your ears The fog\u2019s fingers gently wrapping around you Caressing your face pulling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[423,912,118,668,252,198,1514,1114,945],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2876,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions\/2876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}