{"id":361,"date":"2011-03-02T23:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=361"},"modified":"2013-11-12T13:44:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T21:44:31","slug":"touch-me-not-because-i-am-free-wild-to-hold-though-i-seem-tame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/touch-me-not-because-i-am-free-wild-to-hold-though-i-seem-tame\/","title":{"rendered":"Touch me not because I am free; wild to hold though I seem tame."},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-zBGB4WI_2cY\/TW7SDo2QGbI\/AAAAAAAAES0\/IYG6dIXCoRg\/s1600\/Photo+1144.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-zBGB4WI_2cY\/TW7SDo2QGbI\/AAAAAAAAES0\/IYG6dIXCoRg\/s320\/Photo+1144.jpg\" width=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Me taken on photo booth, right now&#8230;swimming for shore.<br \/>(yes, I am as bad as my daughters for taking photo booth self portraits)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">I have personally been involved in a battle.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">However, I have had major life battles when I was so ill, I wanted someone to shoot me to take me out of the pain. And other times when I had such severe anxiety, I wanted to run in front of a train, to escape the feelings that were chasing me&#8230;So, in the scheme of my life, this is a battle but not the same as a life and death battle. More of an emotional battle ground. One that feels as though it takes place on an ocean of unpredictable and fierce currents.<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\u00a0I am still in the battle, but I am swimming towards shore.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">What a battle like this does, is flush out the friends from the frenemies. Those who want to control me and those who want to help me. \u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">To those who listened, questioned, despite having their doubts and although they had strong opinions opposite to mine&#8230;I thank you. You were a friend when I needed one.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me taken on photo booth, right now&#8230;swimming for shore.(yes, I am as bad as my daughters for taking photo booth self portraits) I have personally been involved in a battle.\u00a0 However, I have had major life battles when I was &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/touch-me-not-because-i-am-free-wild-to-hold-though-i-seem-tame\/\" aria-label=\"Touch me not because I am free; wild to hold though I seem tame.\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[731],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-life-crisis"],"aioseo_notices":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"Uncategorized"}],"post_tag":[{"value":731,"label":"life crisis"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mixhart","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/author\/mixhart\/"},"comment_info":3,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Uncategorized","slug":"uncategorized","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":576,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":576,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Uncategorized","category_nicename":"uncategorized","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":731,"name":"life crisis","slug":"life-crisis","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":731,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}