{"id":1630,"date":"2025-11-07T22:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2025-11-07T22:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:20:12","slug":"seize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/seize\/","title":{"rendered":"SEIZE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html><head><\/head><body><\/p>\n<p>I try, but I still bite the dust.<\/p>\n<p>I stand again on wobbly, hesitant feet.<\/p>\n<p>I lunge forward in a bid to grasp the time that I have squandered.<\/p>\n<p>I fall flat on my face.<\/p>\n<p>I lay down, wallowing in my self-loathing and self-flagellation.<\/p>\n<p>Until the scales fall off my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Then I realise that the sands of time wait for no one and listen to no excuses, no matter how valid they may be.<\/p>\n<p>I then release myself to heal and move forward, scars, flaws, cracks and all.<\/p>\n<p>For this is how I seize my life.<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try, but I still bite the dust. I stand again on wobbly, hesitant feet. I lunge forward in a bid to grasp the time that I have squandered. I fall flat on my face. I lay down, wallowing in my self-loathing and self-flagellation. Until the scales fall off my eyes. Then I realise that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/seize\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SEIZE&#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-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","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=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}