{"id":4432,"date":"2013-05-08T05:35:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T11:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=4432"},"modified":"2013-05-13T07:29:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T13:29:48","slug":"56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=4432","title":{"rendered":"5:8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5:8<\/p>\n<p>It all came back to that infernal machine, he realized. A deal with Satan\u2019s worst could not have spun a more Byzantine web around him. It was not so much that he lacked the sheer strength to break free. It was more the incessant compounding of barriers: monstrous doors, cavernous moats, unscaleable walls &#8230; No matter what triumphs he found, no matter what hard-won successes he contrived over these blockages, another and another and another stood before him.<\/p>\n<p>Though he stood on the precipice of change, a net beyond any mythic description lay in front of him, removing even the possibility of flinging himself into the void.<\/p>\n<p>Yet somehow, even though he knew himself trapped, even though he realized he had no further resources to move himself forward, even though deep in his curdled bowels he understood that the only way was the way back, even so: he could not move from this place. He could not abandon the hope that had brought him so far before seemingly abandoning him to fate.<\/p>\n<p>He stood under that final span, not yet outside nor any longer inside. And he imagined himself removed altogether from the pushes and pulls of his existence. Free in that moment of non-action.<\/p>\n<div id=\"geo-post-4432\" class=\"geo geo-post\" style=\"display: none\"><span class=\"latitude\">53.61212<\/span><span class=\"longitude\">-113.648461<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5:8 It all came back to that infernal machine, he realized. A deal with Satan\u2019s worst could not have spun a more Byzantine web around him. It was not so much that he lacked the sheer strength to break free. It was more the incessant compounding of barriers: monstrous doors, cavernous moats, unscaleable walls &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}