{"id":187,"date":"2013-01-31T05:36:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T05:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theadvententries.com\/?p=187"},"modified":"2013-01-31T05:36:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T05:36:16","slug":"islander-3-accepting-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/TheAdventEntries.com\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Islander 3: Accepting Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The moment I accepted my own defeat, it felt like a huge burden, that I&#8217;ve carried for years, was lifted off my back. However, the thoughts of my failures, and the constant reminding of my foolish mistakes haunted me at every waking hour, and still do until this day. Accepting this defeat was such a bittersweet feeling, but at the same time it was quite painful, considering how close I once was too victory. The day in which I finally fully accepted my defeat, was the day in which I knew and heard the evil that had been lurking behind me throughout what felt like endless days, within the lands of the Plains. This mysterious evil, in this mysterious place, calling out my name in mockery, and bestowing some trecherous plauges \u00a0upon me.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This evil, and all of it&#8217;s strange power casted me out of those lands in which I once dwelled. Leaving me here, in this mysterious place, in which reminds me of life itself before the Cavern Walls. This evil cannot be left un-banished. Though my strengths have been bested, and my time has run out, I begin a shorter path now, to once again reach this evil, reach this mysterious place again, and accomplish and obtain what I have been destined to obtain once again. But now, a birthing I have missed is now beginning. A self of me that has been waiting to arise since the day this journey has begun. A healing that has been put off for much too long. In a way, a new life awaits.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; The moment I accepted my own defeat, it felt like a huge burden, that I&#8217;ve carried for years, was lifted off my back. However, the thoughts of my failures, and the constant reminding of my foolish mistakes haunted me at every waking hour, and still do until this day. Accepting this defeat was such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/TheAdventEntries.com\/?p=187\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Islander 3: Accepting Defeat<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-castles","category-islander-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/TheAdventEntries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/TheAdventEntries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/TheAdventEntries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/TheAdventEntries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/TheAdventEntries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/TheAdventEntries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/TheAdventEntries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/TheAdventEntries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/TheAdventEntries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/TheAdventEntries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}