{"id":133,"date":"2015-02-24T06:51:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T06:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solosurvior.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2015-02-24T06:51:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T06:51:35","slug":"a-spark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"A Spark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-AU\">It&#8217;s dark and comfortless this place I&#8217;m in &#8211; a place without reason or hope or even a pinprick of light. I am drowning! The utter silence from reasonable thinking and sound advice is deafening.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-AU\">I know I need to move but in which direction ? All my knowledge fails me &#8211; all I have tried has not worked. I am curled up into a soggy, tearful ball of despair. I know I need to get up and find the courage to move but it is so hard and I am feeling hopeless.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-AU\">Suddenly there is a hand on my shoulder and a voice gently saying &#8216;this way&#8217; and I notice the tiny flame from the candle they are holding. Strains from a familiar song filter through and a tiny spark ignites deep within. I know now that I will make it through this darkness. I am not alone and I am thankful for the helping hand of a friend.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-AU\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/solosurvior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Su-Ford-One-Word-Image-Small.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-64\" src=\"http:\/\/solosurvior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Su-Ford-One-Word-Image-Small.png\" alt=\"Su Ford One Word Image Small\" width=\"100\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s dark and comfortless this place I&#8217;m in &#8211; a place without reason or hope or even a pinprick of light. I am drowning! The utter silence from reasonable thinking and sound advice is deafening. I know I need to&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/?p=133\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ptsd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solosurvior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}