{"id":6155,"date":"2015-09-05T04:51:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T09:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=6155"},"modified":"2015-09-05T04:51:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T09:51:27","slug":"a-light-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2015\/09\/05\/a-light-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"A Light in the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/lighthouse.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6156\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/lighthouse.jpg\" alt=\"Lighthouse\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/lighthouse.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/lighthouse-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s quiet out there right now.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been quiet for hours and there are still hours of quiet to come before light breaks and the day begins.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what happens when you wake up at 2:30 in the morning and think, &#8220;I can go back to sleep for a few more hours, or&#8230;I can get up and write.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So you move quietly and then sit down and work.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe there are others up doing their thing as well, but you wouldn&#8217;t know it by looking out the window into the darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Right now it&#8217;s just you and a story, and that&#8217;s one of the greatest lights there is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s quiet out there right now. It&#8217;s been quiet for hours and there are still hours of quiet to come before light breaks and the day begins. That&#8217;s what happens when you wake up at 2:30 in the morning and think, &#8220;I can go back to sleep for a few more hours, or&#8230;I can get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6158,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions\/6158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}