{"id":15743,"date":"2025-09-11T08:36:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=15743"},"modified":"2025-09-11T08:36:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:36:22","slug":"still-stunned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2025\/09\/11\/still-stunned\/","title":{"rendered":"Still stunned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke this morning, I watched the sunrise over the mountains. I thanked God for the beauty of his handiwork, and for another day. I asked God for patience, strength, wisdom, guidance, and to calm my raging spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;m not sure what to do. Do I go about my chores, search fruitlessly for a job, act like everything is normal? It&#8217;s clearly not normal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Something fundamental has changed in our country and in me.<\/p>\n<p>After seeing what I&#8217;ve seen over the past two days,  hearing what I&#8217;ve heard on the news, and seeing people celebrating an assassination.<\/p>\n<p>I believe we&#8217;ve all been forced down a very dark road. Unfortunately I don&#8217;t think we can turn around, the only path left is forward. Deeper into darkness, keeping faith that eventually we&#8217;ll step into the light again.<\/p>\n<p>I never thought I&#8217;d live to see this, here, in the land of my birth, yet shockingly, here I am.<\/p>\n<p>One thing is certain. If you think what happened in Utah yesterday was okay we&#8217;re not compatible. Unfollow me, or lose my number. I&#8217;m not interested in anything you have to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke this morning, I watched the sunrise over the mountains. I thanked God for the beauty of his handiwork, and for another day. I asked God for patience, strength, wisdom, guidance, and to calm my raging spirit. Today, I&#8217;m not sure what to do. Do I go about my chores, search fruitlessly for a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2025\/09\/11\/still-stunned\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Still stunned&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[209],"class_list":["post-15743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-obscenities","tag-cultural-obscenities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15744,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15743\/revisions\/15744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}