{"id":1061,"date":"2007-11-07T17:31:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T16:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2007-11-07T23:49:21","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T22:49:21","slug":"283-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/?p=1061","title":{"rendered":"283 steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the graveyard has one long alley, which divides the park into two sides. my grandfather&#8217;s grave lies right at it, close to the gate that divides us, the living people, from the memories inside. i saw the new marble stones encircling it right away and it looked beautiful, as beautiful as he deserves it. as most of the time when i visit his grave, i walked up to benjamin&#8217;s as well. i didn&#8217;t know him so well, i was a kid when he died. we both were. but while he died of a tumor, i was allowed to live. i was allowed to smile and laugh, to cry and moan, to love and be loved &#8211; and whenever life gets at me (as it did today) i think of benjamin. of the things he never was entitled to see or feel. the walk from my grandfather&#8217;s grave to benajmin&#8217;s is 283 steps, a small walk. but it gets me back to understanding that this is my walk. i can do it.<\/p>\n<p>i believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the graveyard has one long alley, which divides the park into two sides. my grandfather&#8217;s grave lies right at it, close to the gate that divides us, the living people, from the memories inside. i saw the new marble stones encircling it right away and it looked beautiful, as beautiful as he deserves it. as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miracle-drug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}