{"id":1298,"date":"2014-11-22T15:21:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T15:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2014-11-22T15:21:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T15:21:18","slug":"the-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1298","title":{"rendered":"the struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tired I am<br \/>\ntrying to be all I can be<br \/>\nStruggle and fight the odds<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll show them<br \/>\nYeah right<br \/>\nsometimes I wonder if it&#8217;s worth it all<br \/>\nBeyond my delusions<br \/>\nwho really cares what I do<br \/>\nAll seem busy just living their lives each day<br \/>\nNever noticing my efforts<br \/>\nmy cause, my vision<\/p>\n<p>Damn it all<br \/>\nI say to my pathetic self<br \/>\nThink about it<br \/>\nwho really listens to your bitching ways<br \/>\nup to me to live proactively and to bring change<br \/>\nI must cherish the moment and live fully<br \/>\nAppreciate life\u2019s struggle<br \/>\ntherein lies the key<br \/>\nNot the end that really matters<br \/>\nbut it\u2019s all in the journey<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>When it comes to that journey called life, fully enjoy the dance before the music comes to an end.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>peace out<\/p>\n<p>Words by \u00a0 \u00a0~Keith Alan Hamilton~<\/p>\n<p>Dedicated to my muse \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?cat=28\">KAP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tired I am trying to be all I can be Struggle and fight the odds I&#8217;ll show them Yeah right sometimes I wonder if it&#8217;s worth it all Beyond my delusions who really cares what I do All seem busy just living their lives each day Never noticing my efforts my cause, my vision Damn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=1298\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;the struggle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,26,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kap","category-peaceoutpoems","category-muse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}