{"id":47,"date":"2008-06-19T10:21:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T14:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/archives\/47"},"modified":"2014-11-19T09:18:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T14:18:24","slug":"im-trying-the-best-i-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Trying The Best I Can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and all I can do is ask you to believe me.  This is all very hard for me, it really is.<\/p>\n<p>There are times when I want to tear my hair out. It gets so very difficult sometimes that my patience is tested&#8211;to the brink where I actually think I&#8217;m going to break. I&#8217;ve gone over that threshold so very little times, but when I do it isn&#8217;t very pretty at all.<\/p>\n<p>Being half-way around the world from the one you love is very difficult. I can definitely attest to that. But one way or another you figure that if you love someone the way that I do, that you&#8217;ll get through everything alright. No matter how many twists and turns there may be.  I lose a lot of sleep over it, but that&#8217;s just how the cookie crumbles sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>But even then, there are always going to be roadblocks that really test your faith.  So at these given points I have two options:<br \/>\n&#8211;I either let them take me down, or&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8211;I bust through them like what a 300-ton wrecking ball does to a small 3-story building.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m opting for the second one.  Here goes nothing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and all I can do is ask you to believe me. This is all very hard for me, it really is. There are times when I want to tear my hair out. It gets so very difficult sometimes that my patience is tested&#8211;to the brink where I actually think I&#8217;m going to break. I&#8217;ve gone over that threshold so very little times, but when I do it isn&#8217;t very pretty at all. Being half-way around the world from the one you love is very difficult. I can definitely attest to that. But one way or another you figure that if you love someone the way that I do, that you&#8217;ll get through everything alright. No matter how many twists and turns there may be. I lose a lot of sleep over it, but that&#8217;s just how the cookie crumbles sometimes. But even then, there are always going to be roadblocks that really test your faith. So at these given points I have two options: &#8211;I either let them take me down, or&#8230; &#8211;I bust through them like what a 300-ton wrecking ball does to a small 3-story building. I&#8217;m opting for the second one. Here goes nothing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"https:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonpinoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}