{"id":2158,"date":"2012-02-19T13:42:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T18:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deepsicks.com\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2022-06-12T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T15:00:15","slug":"dancing-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2012\/02\/19\/dancing-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"dancing in the dark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over a year later, my knee&#8217;s still not the same, but I find myself dancing anyway, in normal\/weird places mostly subdued because well because that joint tenses up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Insert something poignant about passion and pain, vulnerability, fear of further injury, but I can&#8217;t lie. I don&#8217;t like attention from passersby, post-improv dark of night, we&#8217;re all a little otherworldly. No, I don&#8217;t want a ride. Thank you very much, but it&#8217;s one of my favorite things, walk rocking out the way I danced in, even if pulling most my punch and judys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bundled up buzzed with earbuds and ice breath, I slide-step-stamp a crooked path and know I can&#8217;t hide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stars wink. The moon is a swollen eye.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120213_213343-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120213_213343-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120213_213343-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120213_213343-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120213_213343-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a year later, my knee&#8217;s still not the same, but I find myself dancing anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shouts","tag-dancing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8166,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/8166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}