{"id":669,"date":"2024-07-12T21:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bunionsandfunions.world\/?p=669"},"modified":"2024-07-12T21:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T20:00:11","slug":"man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunionsandfunions.world\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Give me your hardest struggles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give me a struggle harder than that elevator ride back home from work, where I was certain I was gonna jump when I get up home. Then give me a slight drizzle when I go out in the balcony\u2014even god is weeping that I\u2019m coming to him.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give me a struggle harder than to survive massive debt. The kind you gave me when I ate biscuits as meals for weeks. Then flourish me with abundance for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give me a struggle harder than the silence with the person I loved. The kind when I got bored and stopped talking or showing interest. Then give me the courage to tell them the same, quickly, to honour the love that was ever there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give me a struggle harder than the sleepless nights away from home. The kind where no person, no book, no movie, no thought lured me to sleep. Then give me a call from Mother, in that exact moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give me a struggle harder than being surrounded by snakes. The kind where I\u2019m taken advantage of, fake loved, lied to, misguided. Then give me the allowance to cut them all at once.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give me a struggle harder than being cheated on. The kind where I felt less. Then give me the courage to walk away.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give me a struggle harder than to survive myself. The kind where it hurt so much I could no longer bear it. The kind where I pondered what is it I\u2019m running from. The kind where I almost bailed on myself, multiple times. Then give me the nerve to wait a bit longer. To hear someone out. To reach out to a loved one, difficult as there were so few. To give myself a chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give me another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And keep giving me your hardest struggles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll deal with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After all,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m a man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give me your hardest struggles. Give me a struggle harder than that elevator ride back home from work, where I was certain I was gonna jump when I get up home. Then give me a slight drizzle when I go out in the balcony\u2014even god is weeping that I\u2019m coming to him.\u00a0 Give me a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bunny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunionsandfunions.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunionsandfunions.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunionsandfunions.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunionsandfunions.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunionsandfunions.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bunionsandfunions.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/bunionsandfunions.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunionsandfunions.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunionsandfunions.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunionsandfunions.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}