{"id":710,"date":"2023-07-26T13:31:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T13:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=710"},"modified":"2023-07-27T15:34:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T15:34:05","slug":"let-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=710","title":{"rendered":"Let Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Lyrics. Someday to be put to music.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">You\u2019re seeing lines in the mirror \nThat didn\u2019t used to be there\n\nRunning hands through thinning hair\nHow could you not care?\n\nYou say, Time finally had its way with me\nI\u2019m just not the person that I used to be\nLife has come\nLife has gone\nNow I\u2019m broken and run down\n\nBut don\u2019t you know?\n\nEvery line, every scar, every mark \nMeans you\u2019ve been growing\n\nTime hasn\u2019t yet cut you off \nNo, you\u2019re still going\n\nSo let life come\nThen let it go\nLet the years take what they will\nThen stand up tall\nBecause you\u2019re still whole\n\nAnd not everyone gets to grow old \n\nSo stop, take a minute to breathe\nPut your hand on your chest \nFeel that heartbeat\n\nDon't you dare say that \nNothing is left\nYou're just getting started\n\nEmbrace the change\nThe sun on your skin\nThe rain on your face\n\nDon't forget who you are\nYou know, that power within\nThat put you here in the first place\n\nBecause don\u2019t you know?\n\nEvery line, every scar, every mark \nMeans you\u2019ve been growing\n\nTime hasn\u2019t yet cut you off \nNo, you\u2019re still going\n\nSo let life come\nThen let it go\nLet the years take what they will\nThen stand up tall\nBecause you\u2019re still whole\n\nAnd not everyone gets to grow old\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyrics. Someday to be put to music. You\u2019re seeing lines in the mirror That didn\u2019t used to be there Running hands through thinning hair How could you not care? You say, Time finally had its way with me I\u2019m just not the person that I used to be Life has come Life has gone Now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[743,736,741,740,739,742,735,734,737,738],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-empowerment","tag-growing-old","tag-growth","tag-let-life","tag-loss-of-youth","tag-maturity","tag-mid-life","tag-mid-life-crisis","tag-old","tag-wrinkles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}