{"id":549,"date":"2013-08-22T01:27:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T01:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=549"},"modified":"2013-08-22T01:27:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T01:27:20","slug":"friends-sometimes-are-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"friends sometimes are bull&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate it when people tell me that I need to stop caring.<\/p>\n<p>Because I have learned that this is the only way to survive.  That I must keep reminding people that I am still alive.  <i>Do you see me?  Do you remember me?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>That if I don\\&#8217;t remind them, I don\\&#8217;t exist?  It\\&#8217;s this tiring cycle where I keep creating, keep talking, keep making&#8230;just to have witness that I matter.  I knock on doors and wonder if someone heard me.  Will they come and open out of curiosity?  Or to come and tell me no?<\/p>\n<p>I am sad.  Because the terror of disappointment sticks its dagger deep into my stomach.  And when it pulls it out, I lurch forward out of the momentum.  I lose my balance, my footing and fall.  Not into concrete, but straight into blackness.<\/p>\n<p>I am afraid to be alone.  Because it means that beneath me, I feel nothing.  Without people, I am swirling into nothingness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate it when people tell me that I need to stop caring. Because I have learned that this is the only way to survive. That I must keep reminding people that I am still alive. Do you see me? Do you remember me? That if I don\\&#8217;t remind them, I don\\&#8217;t exist? It\\&#8217;s this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=549\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">friends sometimes are bull&#8230;.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}