{"id":540,"date":"2004-10-21T10:21:24","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T15:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2004-10-21T10:21:24","modified_gmt":"2004-10-21T15:21:24","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;m so happy i can&#8217;t stop crying.<\/p>\n<p>i watched &#8220;the miracle of bern&#8221; yesterday and even if i am by no means a big soccer fan &#8211; it touched me. it reminded me so much of my grandad. what it meant to him to spend 4 years as a prisoner of war in russia. what it meant to come back to a world forever altered. people forever altered. himself forever altered. compared to 2004 the year 1954 must have been a good time: filled with dreams of rebuilding a future with your hands, just by hard work. and even if those people back then had less, in this case they had more.<\/p>\n<p>I took a walk alone last night<br \/>\nI looked up at the stars<br \/>\nTo try and find an answer in my life<br \/>\nI chose a star for me<br \/>\nI chose a star for him<br \/>\nI chose two stars for my kids and one star for my wife<br \/>\nSomething made me smile<br \/>\nSomething seemed to ease the pain<br \/>\nSomething about the universe and how it&#8217;s all connected<\/p>\n<p>The park is full of Sunday fathers and melted ice cream<br \/>\nWe try to do the best within the given time<br \/>\nA kid should be with his mother<br \/>\nEverybody knows that<br \/>\nWhat can a father do but baby-sit sometimes?<br \/>\nI saw that friend of mine, he said,<br \/>\n&#8220;You look different somehow&#8221;<br \/>\nI said, &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s got to leave the darkness sometime&#8221;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m so happy that I can&#8217;t stop crying<br \/>\nI&#8217;m laughing through my tears<br \/>\nI&#8217;m laughing through my tears<br \/>\nI&#8217;m so happy that I can&#8217;t stop crying<br \/>\nI&#8217;m laughing through my tears<br \/>\nI&#8217;m laughing through my tears<\/p>\n<p>I believe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;m so happy i can&#8217;t stop crying. i watched &#8220;the miracle of bern&#8221; yesterday and even if i am by no means a big soccer fan &#8211; it touched me. it reminded me so much of my grandad. what it meant to him to spend 4 years as a prisoner of war in russia. what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwork.net\/myblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}