{"id":30,"date":"2008-01-27T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com.php53-14.ord1-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2008-01-27T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T22:39:00","slug":"on-the-words-of-ranger-captain-augustus-mccrae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"On the words of Ranger Captain Augustus McCrae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a tough weekend, but overall a better one.  Anything beats wallowing in my own regret and shame, like I did all last weekend and most of last week.  Keeping it light has been the goal, do simple, enjoyable things, and try not to dwell.  A good friend recently told me &#8220;You have to try to do the best you can with the things you can control, and not worry about the others.&#8221;  Not easy advice to take, that.  I can&#8217;t, in good <span>conscience<\/span>, just think solely about myself because I have many things to atone for right now, many wrongs to try and live up to, since I can&#8217;t make them right.  But I can find some <span>solace<\/span> in the words of one of my heroes. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only way to live, as I see it, is to learn to love the little every day things, Like a cool drink of whiskey of an evening, or a glass of buttermilk, or say, the company of a <span>feisty<\/span> gentlemen like myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gus <span>McCrae<\/span> and I have spent a lot of time together, lately, and reading has been good for me. <br \/>Today, for me, it was book stores, hitting golf balls, and cooking.  It still hurts, and it still hurts mostly because I hurt other people, but today, it&#8217;s a little better.  Not a lot, but a little, and it will have to do for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a tough weekend, but overall a better one. Anything beats wallowing in my own regret and shame, like I did all last weekend and most of last week. Keeping it light has been the goal, do simple, enjoyable things, and try not to dwell. A good friend recently told me &#8220;You have to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/?p=30\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On the words of Ranger Captain Augustus McCrae<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}