{"id":64,"date":"2014-01-15T07:12:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T13:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soulfulastrologer.com\/wordpress\/?p=1"},"modified":"2014-01-25T22:30:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T22:30:44","slug":"hello-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/hello-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Revelation: Burned Up in the Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/GlamourShot29.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44\" alt=\"Melissa SImonson Red\" src=\"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/GlamourShot29-208x300.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve come to learn that freedom doesn&#8217;t come<br \/>\nwithout first being burned up in the fire<\/p>\n<p>I must first let go of my desire to never get hurt<br \/>\nStop trying to conspire for the perfect ending<br \/>\nStop defending myself<br \/>\nStop pretending to be what I&#8217;m not<\/p>\n<p>There is no easy exit<br \/>\nNo temporary fix on the path to getting free<br \/>\nThere is only integrity, honesty<br \/>\nThe truth of me<br \/>\nAll of the stuff I&#8217;m afraid to let you see<\/p>\n<p>I get afraid to lose my grip on reality<br \/>\nAfraid to tip the scales<br \/>\nAnd feel the gravity of my choices<br \/>\nAs the voice inside of me screams<br \/>\nFor me to trust, to give it all up<br \/>\nAnd surrender to the stream<br \/>\nThat is my life<\/p>\n<p>No more striving for an illusion of control<br \/>\nAs confusion rolls over my every move<br \/>\nThere is only one thing to do, and nothing to prove:<br \/>\nJust speak the truth<\/p>\n<p>Get burned up in the fire<br \/>\nso that all that&#8217;s left of me<br \/>\nIs not my story<\/p>\n<p>but the woman I was born to be<\/p>\n<p>Much Love,<\/p>\n<p>Melissa<\/p>\n<p>Photography by\u00a0Frank Sommers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve come to learn that freedom doesn&#8217;t come without first being burned up in the fire I must first let go of my desire to never get hurt Stop trying to conspire for the perfect ending Stop defending myself Stop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/hello-world-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[3,4],"tags":[29,52,58,65,182,67,68],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-revelation","category-poetry","tag-freedom","tag-poem","tag-self-expression","tag-story","tag-surrender","tag-truth","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}