{"id":172,"date":"2006-12-04T04:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.142:8080\/2006\/12\/04\/been-awhile-but-holy-grail-revisited\/"},"modified":"2023-02-25T10:31:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T15:31:43","slug":"been-awhile-but-holy-grail-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/04\/been-awhile-but-holy-grail-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Been awhile, but&#8230;  Holy Grail revisited."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if I met my Holy Grail?  How would I know that it was her?<br \/>\nWhen I&#8217;ve heard older couples tell the story of how they met, I&#8217;m usually told something to the effect of, &#8220;I knew the moment I laid eyes on her that she was The One.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What the hell man?  I&#8217;ve had that feeling (or something surprisingly similar) two distinct times in my life, and so far that feeling has yet to fulfil itself!<\/p>\n<p>So then, when I&#8217;m asked, &#8220;Would you give up everything for this girl?&#8221;  Well, how can I answer that question?  If I gave up everything, to be able to have one touch at that Holy Grail (and there&#8217;s no telling if its even the true grail), then I would be giving up my entire life and all that I&#8217;ve worked for.  Once I do that, I wouldn&#8217;t be attractive to the person that I want anyway.<\/p>\n<p>But then, if she was the true Grail, giving up everything and being stripped of my defenses would be worth everything to be able to hold her.<\/p>\n<p>So I go back to my original question:  how will I know when I meet her?<\/p>\n<div class='lj-moods-meta'><b>Current Mood:<\/b> \ud83d\ude41exhausted<br\/><b>Current Music:<\/b> Those Were the Times &#8211; Jason LeVasseur<br\/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if I met my Holy Grail? How would I know that it was her? When I&#8217;ve heard older couples tell the story of how they met, I&#8217;m usually told something to the effect of, &#8220;I knew the moment I laid eyes on her that she was The One.&#8221; What the hell man? I&#8217;ve had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18,19],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-family","category-moods","category-opinions","tag-the-grail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}