{"id":3447,"date":"2014-11-25T11:50:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T18:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2014-11-25T11:50:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T18:50:20","slug":"i-am-here-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2014\/11\/i-am-here-now\/","title":{"rendered":"I am Here Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not the same song. It&#8217;s the same group. And it sounds so much the same.<\/p>\n<p>I remember when I first listened to an album of this group.<\/p>\n<p>I was seriously sick, mysteriously sick. I was in a room in Moscow, and I had been bitten by moscow mosquitos for more than a week. We had just missed our flight and I didn&#8217;t have enough dollars to get another ticket.<\/p>\n<p>My parents had only agreed to let me and my brother go to Moscow because I had enough money to pay for tickets to get back if we had to pay in dollars.<\/p>\n<p>But I had spent the money while in the big city. I didn&#8217;t have enough for pay for us to buy tickets to get back when the people who were supposed to get us back made us miss the flight.<\/p>\n<p>Worse though, was that all my mosquitos bites had started to ache down to my bones. They had swollen, and then after I fell asleep at the school headquarters in Moscow they had all formed rings of white pus.<\/p>\n<p>I had a hacking cough and I was stranded.<\/p>\n<p>I think back at how dangerous that was. I lose my breath at how I wasnt&#8217; scared enough at the time.<\/p>\n<p>I was scared. But not scared enough.<\/p>\n<p>I am here now. That was a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>The cough worsened, and lasted more than a month.<\/p>\n<p>The mosquito bites evnetually drained and healed. They left some scars, and those places on my skin behaved differently for decades into the future.<\/p>\n<p>And that is not the danger anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I am here now.<\/p>\n<p>But once. I was there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not the same song. It&#8217;s the same group. And it sounds so much the same. I remember when I first listened to an album of this group. I was seriously sick, mysteriously sick. I was in a room in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2014\/11\/i-am-here-now\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3448,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions\/3448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}