{"id":8,"date":"2001-03-12T02:45:29","date_gmt":"2001-03-12T09:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2001-03-12T02:45:29","modified_gmt":"2001-03-12T09:45:29","slug":"i-think-im-going-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/2001\/03\/i-think-im-going-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"I think I&#8217;m going blind."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;m going blind.<\/p>\n<p>No, not Selma-Dancer in the Dark blind, but my vision is definitely deteriorating at a rapid rate. It&#8217;s harder to see, it&#8217;s harder to perceive things as I once could. I feel like I&#8217;m living my life in a strange haze, cheerily ignoring important things that I would worry about before, just because I don&#8217;t recognize its existence as I used to.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I do a lot of things that hurt other people. Be it from sheer obliviousness or from simply being indifferent and less considerate than I should be, it happens&#8230; more than it should.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m young, right? I can be young and reckless&#8230;I can be irresponsible for a while. But I&#8217;m not so young anymore&#8230; I&#8217;m 21, dammit. my parents look at me like I&#8217;m an adult. I should be acting like one. <\/p>\n<p>but it&#8217;s probably time to put away childish tendencies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;m going blind. No, not Selma-Dancer in the Dark blind, but my vision is definitely deteriorating at a rapid rate. It&#8217;s harder to see, it&#8217;s harder to perceive things as I once could. I feel like I&#8217;m living my life in a strange haze, cheerily ignoring important things that I would worry about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/2001\/03\/i-think-im-going-blind\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I think I&#8217;m going blind.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}