{"id":573,"date":"2015-04-30T00:09:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T08:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moonstoneblues.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2015-05-10T10:40:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T18:40:37","slug":"chapter-dark-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moonstoneblues.com\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"Chapter ??? &#8211; Dark Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are days that make you wonder about your approach to life. Looking at my past relationships I&#8217;m starting to wonder if all the assholes in the world are right. Putting others first, making the a priority over your own happiness seems to get you nowhere. Look at my years with Maria. Yes I lied to her and kept secrets, but in the end I always put her first. What did I get in return nothing. Every moment in my life, every last moment when I felt weak or need someone I was alone. I honestly don&#8217;t mind. Fuck people, I have learned to handle my darkest nights alone and I came through it fine. Maybe I am meant to die alone, but fuck it we all die alone. I say this no because I am upset, but don&#8217;t listen to me. I&#8217;m an asshole. I don&#8217;t change. I say all these things but in the end I don&#8217;t change. My downfall is compassion. Underneath it I can never moderate my love, I am incapable of being selfish in a relationship. I wish I had some variety in my approach, but I love putting the other person first. Take Ivy for instance there are moment of doubt with her. Moments when I feel that familiar sting of selfishness, but there is something different about her. It&#8217;s her compassion. Despite her facade of independence I know she needs and wants to be loved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are days that make you wonder about your approach to life. Looking at my past relationships I&#8217;m starting to wonder if all the assholes in the world are right. Putting others first, making the a priority over your own &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonstoneblues.com\/?p=573\"><em>Continue&nbsp;reading&nbsp;<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-novel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moonstoneblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moonstoneblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moonstoneblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moonstoneblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moonstoneblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.moonstoneblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"http:\/\/www.moonstoneblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moonstoneblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moonstoneblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moonstoneblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}