{"id":363,"date":"2008-10-21T06:26:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T03:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/?p=363"},"modified":"2008-10-21T06:38:35","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T03:38:35","slug":"desert-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"Desert Love."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I never learn. I choose to get burned, over and again.  I give it the match and kindly watch as it lights my skin on fire. I breathe, I take in the moment. I feed our silence with my distressed voice. I tried. I really tried. I died, and I died. And it pathetically was without comforting words. It spoke nothing. It left me nothing to hold onto. No single word, even a letter would mean the very world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Silence, and we fell silent. A thousand words it did not speak. My dried eyes knew only how to weep. A waterless weep. The heat of a warming desert dried me. It provided the warmth that it refused to give. It gave me everything, and then more of which I had no need. Is it wrong to need?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-369 alignnone\" title=\"desert\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dubai_bab-al-shams_sunset-camels_pp2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dubai_bab-al-shams_sunset-camels_pp2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dubai_bab-al-shams_sunset-camels_pp2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dubai_bab-al-shams_sunset-camels_pp2.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I stand disappointed. Disappointed in all that I was. I spoke dishonest feelings, and I breathed in false hope. I breathed it in. I wanted it to care. But now, I do not want it. I do not want it to exist. I want this all to end. I want to go away. For years, and maybe a hundred will do. I want to forget a sense of known-ness. I want to run.  I long to run away. I want the sand to stop burning my toes. I want to feel breathless. I want to stop making a fool of myself.  Here I am wanting, and the heat brings us to an end.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The arabian desert, and I will love you in the silence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never learn. I choose to get burned, over and again. I give it the match and kindly watch as it lights my skin on fire. I breathe, I take in the moment. I feed our silence with my distressed voice. I tried. I really tried. I died, and I died. And it pathetically was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puremassacre.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}