{"id":5362,"date":"2010-05-08T11:54:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T18:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=5362"},"modified":"2010-05-09T01:32:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T08:32:48","slug":"5362","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=5362","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instructions came in loud and clear. There are rules. And in life&#8211;every test, every battle, every game, has rules. Sometimes you stop questioning who made the rules, and you say, I trust it. I trust that if I follow the rules, I will get exactly what I want. And so you follow the rules.<\/p>\n<p>In my dream last night, I found a whole city covered by a thunderstorm sky and rainbow.\u00a0 I could walk freely in that city, as myself. The thing that people loved, was that I was their size, a normal girl, but if I reached up my hand, it would grow and touch the sky. Like a giant hand reaching out and touching the surface of water, rippling the sky and rainbow. This world was just a drop of water and we were safe in it. People would cry, hug me, instant family, so grateful, the greatest miracle they&#8217;d hoped for, to witness that the sky was not untouchable. It was just illusion. And this was everything I&#8217;d ever wanted in life. Just to give those people that.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why you would want it this way. But I can understand why you would need it this way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?s=my+only+play+is+to+walk+away\">[]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instructions came in loud and clear. There are rules. And in life&#8211;every test, every battle, every game, has rules. Sometimes you stop questioning who made the rules, and you say, I trust it. I trust that if I follow the rules, I will get exactly what I want. And so you follow the rules. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-5362","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-5362","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362","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=5362"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5389,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions\/5389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}