{"id":141,"date":"2013-12-20T16:36:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T16:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=141"},"modified":"2013-12-26T08:54:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T00:54:56","slug":"hyde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"Hyde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find myself sitting here on the barrage staring at the city, questioning my significance.<\/p>\n<p>I see spotlights shining into the sky from where revelers are drinking and dancing the night away. I wonder how many of them do that to fill a void.<\/p>\n<p>I stare into the dark waters with that question. Why is there a void?<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could yell out my frustrations but with people around, I can&#8217;t seem to be myself.<\/p>\n<p>Do I even know the meaning of that anymore? &#8220;Myself&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>I find myself in the strange predicament of being a different person to different people. I can be the nice easy going person to some people but I have recently confided to someone about some of my baser urges and frustrations.<\/p>\n<p>And it felt good. Was I repressed for so long?<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t I confide some of these feelings to people I supposedly trust more? To people who are suppose to be close to me?<\/p>\n<p>Is it easier to tell someone you don&#8217;t know about the dark side of your life? Is it wrong to suppress that dark side or is it wrong to embrace it?<\/p>\n<p>I have a feeling that the answer lies somewhere in between.<\/p>\n<p>In between the man and the monster that lies within.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find myself sitting here on the barrage staring at the city, questioning my significance. I see spotlights shining into the sky from where revelers are drinking and dancing the night away. I wonder how many of them do that to fill a void. I stare into the dark waters with that question. Why is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=141\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hyde<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,2,39],"tags":[40],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hyde.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}