{"id":19816,"date":"2013-03-28T16:10:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T16:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/03\/28\/its-okay-to-lock-yourself-in-the-medicine\/"},"modified":"2013-03-28T16:10:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T16:10:23","slug":"its-okay-to-lock-yourself-in-the-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/03\/28\/its-okay-to-lock-yourself-in-the-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It\u2019s okay to lock yourself in the medicine cabinet, to drink all the wine, to do what it takes to stay, without staying. It\u2019s okay to hate God today, to change his name to yours, to want to ruin all that ruined you. It\u2019s okay to feel like only a photograph of yourself, to need a stranger to pull your hair and pin you down. It\u2019s okay to want your mother as you lie alone in bed. It\u2019s okay to break, to fuck, to flame, to church, to crush, to knife, to rock, and rock, and rock, and rock, and rock, and rock. It\u2019s okay to wave goodbye to yourself in the mirror. To write, \u2018I don\u2019t want anything.\u2019 It\u2019s okay to despise what you have inherited, to feel dead in a city of pulses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Rachel McKibbens, <em>Letter From My Heart to My Brain<\/em> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ceedling.tumblr.com\/\">ceedling<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s okay to lock yourself in the medicine cabinet, to drink all the wine, to do what it takes to stay, without staying. It\u2019s okay to hate God today, to change his name to yours, to want to ruin all that ruined you. It\u2019s okay to feel like only a photograph of yourself, to need &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/03\/28\/its-okay-to-lock-yourself-in-the-medicine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}