{"id":575,"date":"2014-03-26T08:51:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T08:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=575"},"modified":"2014-03-26T08:51:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T08:51:08","slug":"the-lesson-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"the lesson held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/images\/tunnel.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>no matter how much I travel<br \/>\nthe deep \u00a0&#8230;.<br \/>\n&#8230;..\u00a0 dark tunnels<br \/>\nof mental discontent<br \/>\nwhere the many burrows<br \/>\nfilled with self-pity<br \/>\nfalsely offer<br \/>\na feeling of solace<br \/>\nto my burdened spirit<\/p>\n<p>yes &#8230;&#8230;\u00a0 again and again<\/p>\n<p>repeatedly pondering<br \/>\nthe never ending extent<br \/>\nof my persistent misery<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve realized\u00a0\u00a0 ~<br \/>\n~\u00a0\u00a0 such an existence as this &#8230;.<br \/>\n&#8230;..\u00a0 this is not really<br \/>\na sanctuary<br \/>\nfor the replenishing of<br \/>\nmy soul<br \/>\nrather<br \/>\na prison<br \/>\nI<br \/>\nneed to free<br \/>\nmyself<br \/>\nfrom<br \/>\nagain and again<br \/>\nso I can experience fully \u00a0~<br \/>\n~\u00a0 more\u00a0fully understand<br \/>\nand appreciate<br \/>\nthe journey<br \/>\nthe lesson held<br \/>\nwithin the many passageways<br \/>\nthat return me<br \/>\nto \u00a0&#8230;.<br \/>\n&#8230;..\u00a0 the brighter<br \/>\nmore optimistic<br \/>\nside of my reality<\/p>\n<p>Image &amp; Words by\u00a0\u00a0 ~Keith Alan Hamilton~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>no matter how much I travel the deep \u00a0&#8230;. &#8230;..\u00a0 dark tunnels of mental discontent where the many burrows filled with self-pity falsely offer a feeling of solace to my burdened spirit yes &#8230;&#8230;\u00a0 again and again repeatedly pondering the never ending extent of my persistent misery I&#8217;ve realized\u00a0\u00a0 ~ ~\u00a0\u00a0 such an existence as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=575\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;the lesson held&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imagewords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","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=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}