{"id":19899,"date":"2024-05-16T13:18:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=19899"},"modified":"2024-05-16T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:19:00","slug":"intermission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2024\/05\/16\/intermission\/","title":{"rendered":"intermission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">so for today&#8217;s blog I wanted to try something, something that I don\u2019t usually do when it comes to this form of writing. i would say that for the most part these blogs have become something that i use as an outlet to even out the tone of my pieces. i think, at least usually, these blogs have a softer tone so that i can better equal them out with the relatively serious nature of the rest of my pieces, but i wanted this one to be different.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">i wanted it to be something that I could write down how I feel so I could reduce it to nothing more than just words on a page. most of these thoughts are about the end of the year, and luckily I have the privilege to not say that this is the end of the road for me, even though it feels like with the coming of summer that it will all suddenly come to an end, the people I have met, the way that I feel, all of it will turn into just something that once happened. but as I sit in my new seat that erin handed down to me I\u2019m coming to realize that summer isn\u2019t an end, just an intermission.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">i don\u2019t think that this realization was something that suddenly came to me, instead it was something that came to me on the day that i read the senior\u2019s last blog posts did i realize. another thing that i realized was that when i<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> go back to me in august, go back to that version of me who would think about how monumentally important my last blog of junior year would be. i feel silly now. i thought it would be perfect, but now i am sitting here, my pants are dirty, i have a sty, the room is hot, and i am writing anyway. maybe that is what it means to be perfect, maybe I\u2019ll never know, maybe I\u2019m not supposed to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fjan1-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.18169-9\/18700016_1684009114983171_1740202169238880829_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&amp;ccb=1-7&amp;_nc_sid=5f2048&amp;_nc_ohc=5lBFvMlrL-8Q7kNvgH4nC9X&amp;_nc_ht=scontent.fjan1-1.fna&amp;oh=00_AYBExZeJmwUoPgKAoJ-tT-Fp5nvFuh2zGfa4C9OjwWIA0Q&amp;oe=666C6A96\" alt=\"No photo description available.\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so for today&#8217;s blog I wanted to try something, something that I don\u2019t usually do when it comes to this form of writing. i would say that for the most part these blogs have become something that i use as an outlet to even out the tone of my pieces. i think, at least usually, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2024\/05\/16\/intermission\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;intermission&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19927,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19899\/revisions\/19927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}