{"id":319,"date":"2009-04-24T17:02:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T21:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=319"},"modified":"2009-04-24T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T18:05:07","slug":"13-candles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"13 Candles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O made me a &quot;last lap&quot; prize.  I have 13 weeks left, which is 1\/4 of the total time.  Its like running a mile, and coming into your last lap.  I can see the finish.  I can feel the finish.  This all will be over soon.  Three months doesn&#8217;t seem like a short time, but considering I&#8217;ve been doing this for 14 months, it is pretty doable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/32811070@N05\/3470654199\/\" title=\"last lap by melanarrative, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3572\/3470654199_2e3aaf853a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"last lap\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/32811070@N05\/3471468608\/\" title=\"last lap by melanarrative, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3596\/3471468608_676166e236.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"last lap\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O made me a &quot;last lap&quot; prize. I have 13 weeks left, which is 1\/4 of the total time. Its like running a mile, and coming into your last lap. I can see the finish. I can feel the finish. This all will be over soon. Three months doesn&#8217;t seem like a short time, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=319\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">13 Candles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[65,70,49,64,17],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-update","tag-cancerversary","tag-countdown","tag-food","tag-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel","tag-sports-metaphors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}