{"id":7719,"date":"2012-01-11T11:22:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T16:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=7719"},"modified":"2012-01-11T11:22:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T16:22:05","slug":"eternity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=7719","title":{"rendered":"Eternity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Eternity is a long time,&#8221; she said, &#8220;you need to let her go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He looked down at the grave. &#8220;But she was here, she was real. I remember everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, she was real, and you still are.  And so am I.  Come on, let&#8217;s go. This is no place for the living. You&#8217;ll catch a cold standing out here. You&#8217;re not looking out for yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He hesitated.  &#8220;It&#8217;s just that I can&#8217;t stop thinking about her ghost.  I guess you could say that I&#8217;m haunted by it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She thought about that.  &#8220;I&#8217;ve had my own ghosts.  And demons too.  We all have.  You just learn to live with them.  We can&#8217;t get rid of them, but if we go about our lives as if they are not there, eventually they get tired and leave us alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He shook his head.  &#8220;You don&#8217;t understand.  I come here on purpose.  Not to see her grave, but to see her ghost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She paused at this, and looked at him appraisingly.  &#8220;I guess there are all kinds of relationships.  How long have you been seeing her ghost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He shook his head.  &#8220;No, that&#8217;s just it.  What haunts me is that I&#8217;ve never seen it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Eternity is a long time,&#8221; she said, &#8220;you need to let her go.&#8221; He looked down at the grave. &#8220;But she was here, she was real. I remember everything.&#8221; &#8220;Yes, she was real, and you still are. And so am I. Come on, let&#8217;s go. This is no place for the living. You&#8217;ll catch a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=7719\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eternity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7720,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719\/revisions\/7720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}