{"id":1463,"date":"2021-07-12T23:53:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T21:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/withmywords.com\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2021-07-12T23:54:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T21:54:51","slug":"shadowboxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/12\/shadowboxing\/","title":{"rendered":"SHADOWBOXING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I swallow my tears.<\/p>\n<p>I smile with dead eyes.<\/p>\n<p>I am broken and hurt.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what to do or how to do it.<\/p>\n<p>My heart is so heavy and excruciatingly painful.<\/p>\n<p>I want to cry, but my eyes are dry clogged wells.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, I mourn and wail in my heart.<\/p>\n<p>The smile on my face is but a pathetic camouflage.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, what do I do now?<\/p>\n<p>I fear sinking into the quagmire of depression.<\/p>\n<p>The strong pull of the treacherous cliff is hard for me to resist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The deceitful numbness and light-headedness of sleep and meal deprivation, push me into the jagged rocks of despair.<\/p>\n<p>I need to keep my head grounded and latch onto hope, or else, all is lost.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 I swallow my tears. I smile with dead eyes. I am broken and hurt. I don&#8217;t know what to do or how to do it. My heart is so heavy and excruciatingly painful. I want to cry, but my eyes are dry clogged wells. Yet, I mourn and wail in my heart. The smile &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/12\/shadowboxing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SHADOWBOXING&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}