{"id":182,"date":"2008-12-09T17:49:45","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T23:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onepeople-oneworld.org\/WordPress\/?p=182"},"modified":"2008-12-09T18:51:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T00:51:01","slug":"a-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onepeople-oneworld.org\/WordPress\/2008\/12\/09\/a-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"A goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am shutting down writing for a while.  This blog was never the main point of my buying this website name in the first place.  My main site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onepeople-oneworld.org\/\" target=\"blank\">One People &#8211; One World <\/a> was, and is, the reason.  I&#8217;ve been told this should be about the light, well, there is very little of that in my life these days for many reasons.  It is hard to see the light in the midst of a very dark tunnel and that is where I find myself of late.  So, I&#8217;m going to just stop.  For a while or forever, I don&#8217;t yet know.  But for now certainly as I find myself afloat, a ship without an anchor, so I leave for some period of time with this song:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9ZOSYrsgMJI\" target=\"blank\">Goodbye Stranger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was an early morning yesterday<br \/>\nI was up before the dawn<br \/>\nAnd I really have enjoyed my stay<br \/>\nBut I must be moving on<\/p>\n<p>Like a king without a castle<br \/>\nLike a queen without a throne<br \/>\nI\u2019m an early morning lover<br \/>\nAnd I must be moving on<\/p>\n<p>Now I believe in what you say<br \/>\nIs the undisputed truth<br \/>\nBut I have to have things my own way<br \/>\nTo keep me in my youth<\/p>\n<p>Like a ship without an anchor<br \/>\nLike a slave without a chain<br \/>\nJust the thought of those sweet ladies<br \/>\nSends a shiver through my veins<\/p>\n<p>And I will go on shining<br \/>\nShining like brand new<br \/>\nI\u2019ll never look behind me<br \/>\nMy troubles will be few<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye stranger it\u2019s been nice<br \/>\nHope you find your paradise<br \/>\nTried to see your point of view<br \/>\nHope your dreams will all come true<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye mary, goodbye jane<br \/>\nWill we ever meet again<br \/>\nFeel no sorrow, feel no shame<br \/>\nCome tomorrow, feel no pain<\/p>\n<p>Now some they do and some they don\u2019t<br \/>\nAnd some you just can\u2019t tell<br \/>\nAnd some they will and some they won\u2019t<br \/>\nWith some it\u2019s just as well<\/p>\n<p>You can laugh at my behavior<br \/>\nThat\u2019ll never bother me<br \/>\nSay the devil is my savior<br \/>\nBut I don\u2019t pay no heed<\/p>\n<p>And I will go on shining<br \/>\nShining like brand new<br \/>\nI\u2019ll never look behind me<br \/>\nMy troubles will be few<\/p>\n<p>Chorus, repeat<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: midnightblue; font-weight: normal\">Remember, please, if today brings even one choice your way choose to be a bringer of the light.  Mayhaps, I&#8217;ll see it and we will share a cup of coffee and talk it through.  :^) gene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am shutting down writing for a while. This blog was never the main point of my buying this website name in the first place. My main site One People &#8211; One World was, and is, the reason. I&#8217;ve been told this should be about the light, well, there is very little of that in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onepeople-oneworld.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onepeople-oneworld.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onepeople-oneworld.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onepeople-oneworld.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onepeople-oneworld.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.onepeople-oneworld.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/www.onepeople-oneworld.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onepeople-oneworld.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onepeople-oneworld.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onepeople-oneworld.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}