{"id":176,"date":"2022-08-30T11:44:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T18:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/direlilith.com\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2022-08-30T11:44:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T18:44:17","slug":"its-been-awhile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/direlilith.com\/blog\/its-been-awhile\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Been Awhile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I&#8217;ll just leave this here&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=araU0fZj6oQ\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s Been Awhile &#8211; Staind<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And it&#8217;s been awhile<br><strong>Since I could hold my head up high<\/strong><br>And it&#8217;s been awhile<br>Since I first saw you<br>And it&#8217;s been awhile<br><strong>Since I could stand on my own two feet again<\/strong><br>And it&#8217;s been awhile<br>Since I could call you<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And everything I can&#8217;t remember<br>As fucked up as it all may seem<br>The consequences that are rendered<br>I&#8217;ve stretched myself beyond my means<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And it&#8217;s been awhile<br>Since I can say that I wasn&#8217;t addicted<br>And it&#8217;s been awhile<br>Since I can say I love myself as well and<br>And it&#8217;s been awhile<br>Since I&#8217;ve gone and fucked things up just like I always do<br>And it&#8217;s been awhile<br>But all that shit seems to disappear when I&#8217;m with you<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And everything I can&#8217;t remember<br>As fucked up as it all may seem<br>The consequences that I&#8217;ve rendered<br>I&#8217;ve gone and fucked things up again, again<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Why must I feel this way?<br>Just make this go away<br>Just one more peaceful day<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And it&#8217;s been awhile<br>Since I could look at myself straight<br>And it&#8217;s been awhile<br>Since I said I&#8217;m sorry<br>And it&#8217;s been awhile<br>Since I&#8217;ve seen the way the candles light your face<br>And it&#8217;s been awhile<br><strong>But I can still remember just the way you taste<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And everything I can&#8217;t remember<br>As fucked up as it all may seem to be, and I know it&#8217;s me<br>I cannot blame this on my father<br>He did the best he could for me<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And it&#8217;s been awhile<br><strong>Since I could hold my head up high<\/strong><br>And it&#8217;s been awhile<br>Since I said I&#8217;m sorry<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ll just leave this here&#8230; It&#8217;s Been Awhile &#8211; Staind And it&#8217;s been awhileSince I could hold my head up highAnd it&#8217;s been awhileSince I first saw youAnd it&#8217;s been awhileSince I could stand on my own two feet againAnd it&#8217;s been awhileSince I could call you And everything I can&#8217;t rememberAs fucked up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/direlilith.com\/blog\/its-been-awhile\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s Been Awhile&#8221;<\/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":[47,12,115],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-direlilith","category-fun","category-writing","tag-direlilith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/direlilith.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/direlilith.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/direlilith.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direlilith.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direlilith.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/direlilith.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/direlilith.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/direlilith.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direlilith.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/direlilith.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}