{"id":2023,"date":"2009-08-10T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T06:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/blog\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2009-08-10T23:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T06:33:00","slug":"2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=2023","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my god, life really is a cycle. i just read what i streamed about this being like august 2007, and i thought, what was going on in <a href=\"http:\/\/3amwanderer.blogspot.com\/2007_08_01_archive.html\">august 2007<\/a>? so i took a look and i realize now in hindsight, august 07 was pivotal. it was the true start of the rest of my life. i did exactly what i said i was going to do. i jumped into a well. that speech i gave was the first time i ever ripped off my mask in public and people saw my passion, intensity and depth. my power. i remember how carefully i&#8217;d chosen that date.<\/p>\n<p><em>But these are my hopes, and I hope that even if I&#8217;m not physically around or if I seem to be a mess, that all those people that I&#8217;ve had deep connections with and have helped change in some way, whether friends, family or strangers, will also be there for me in spirit when I dive, and that their good will and positive energy will help me find my way home.<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/>i&#8217;ve gone deep and i&#8217;ve gotten pretty strong. are these signs then, that it&#8217;s time for me to find my way home, or that this is the last homestand and i&#8217;m about to seriously plunge?<\/p>\n<p>oh boy&#8230;i sense it&#8217;s the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my god, life really is a cycle. i just read what i streamed about this being like august 2007, and i thought, what was going on in august 2007? so i took a look and i realize now in hindsight, august 07 was pivotal. it was the true start of the rest of my life. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbl5mn-2023","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}