{"id":1193,"date":"2006-10-03T09:59:48","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T16:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2006-10-03T09:59:48","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T16:59:48","slug":"franklyi-cant-even-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1193","title":{"rendered":"frankly&#8230;i can&#8217;t even talk."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/100\/251090030_397b746daa.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the blogging world we are faced with people in &#8216;real life&#8217; run across our blogs and we are confronted with either keeping our blogs going or just shutting them down.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been blogging\/writing\/scribbling my thoughts in notepads since as long as I can remember. I always knew my sister was reading my diaries. I always knew my mom was reading my notes.\u00a0 The two strong women in my life made it clear that nothing was getting past them.\u00a0 I even tried to write in code and they always broke those codes and would confront me.\u00a0 My mom&#8217;s theory was always, &#8220;I knew if I gave you enough rope, you&#8217;d hang yourself.&#8221;\u00a0 and when I was dangling in front of her she was always give me the, &#8216;told you so&#8217; eyebrow.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been confronted more times than I can count about my blog.\u00a0 Each time I either stand my ground or tweek a little bit how I put my words out there.\u00a0 About once a year I say, &#8220;ENOUGH!&#8221; and I decide that I am tired of tip toeing around certain words and certain subjects and I swear that I am going to RECLAIM MY BLOG.\u00a0 That usually last for about 2 posts and then I am back to the blah.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about opening another blog under a secret name so I could cuss, scream and pull out my hair and talk about all the things I don&#8217;t here.\u00a0 There is a reason I don&#8217;t talk about things here.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t.\u00a0 I have to be the &#8216;bigger person&#8217; ALL THE TIME.\u00a0 I mean, it doesn&#8217;t take too much to be the bigger person. All I have to do is not open my mouth and just laugh when confronted with certain things.<\/p>\n<p>But you know, sometimes I would really like to just go the hell off&#8230;not be the &#8216;bigger person&#8217;, just let it out so you can all see how REAL I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the blogging world we are faced with people in &#8216;real life&#8217; run across our blogs and we are confronted with either keeping our blogs going or just shutting them down. I&#8217;ve been blogging\/writing\/scribbling my thoughts in notepads since as long as I can remember. I always knew my sister was reading my diaries. I always knew my mom was reading my notes.\u00a0 The two strong women in my life made it clear that nothing was getting past them.\u00a0 I even tried to write in code and they always broke those codes and would confront me.\u00a0 My mom&#8217;s theory was always, &#8220;I knew if I gave you enough rope, you&#8217;d hang yourself.&#8221;\u00a0 and when I was dangling in front of her she was always give me the, &#8216;told you so&#8217; eyebrow. I&#8217;ve been confronted more times than I can count about my blog.\u00a0 Each time I either stand my ground or tweek a little bit how I put my words out there.\u00a0 About once a year I say, &#8220;ENOUGH!&#8221; and I decide that I am tired of tip toeing around certain words and certain subjects and I swear that I am going to RECLAIM MY BLOG.\u00a0 That usually last for about 2 posts and then I am back to the blah. I thought about opening another blog under a secret name so I could cuss, scream and pull out my hair and talk about all the things I don&#8217;t here.\u00a0 There is a reason I don&#8217;t talk about things here.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t.\u00a0 I have to be the &#8216;bigger person&#8217; ALL THE TIME.\u00a0 I mean, it doesn&#8217;t take too much to be the bigger person. All I have to do is not open my mouth and just laugh when confronted with certain things. But you know, sometimes I would really like to just go the hell off&#8230;not be the &#8216;bigger person&#8217;, just let it out so you can all see how REAL I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}