{"id":70,"date":"2019-04-28T04:24:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T04:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?p=70"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:45:28","slug":"the-darkness-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Darkness II<\/h1>\n<p>It never goes away.<\/p>\n<p>I get up, go to work and come home and the darkness is there, waiting for me to return. <\/p>\n<p>I get up, go to work and come home and the darkness is there, waiting for me to return. <\/p>\n<p>I get up, go to work and come home and the darkness is there, waiting for me to return. <\/p>\n<p>It never goes away.<\/p>\n<p>I get up &hellip; the darkness is there. <\/p>\n<p>I go to work &hellip; and the darkness is waiting for me outside. <\/p>\n<p>I come home &hellip; and the darkness follows me, beats me home every time. Waiting for me again. <\/p>\n<p>Always waiting for me. It never goes away. <\/p>\n<p>I lie in bed and it consumes me. Sleep is the only escape. Deaths sweet embrace that isn\u2019t actually death. <\/p>\n<p>I wake up and the darkness is there. Oily, thick, cloyingly greasy. The shower is an escape. But it\u2019s only temporary. The darkness isn\u2019t there when I get out, but I don\u2019t want to get out. There is something raw and unspoken about just standing there, under the hot water. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Darkness II It never goes away. I get up, go to work and come home and the darkness is there, waiting for me to return. I get up, go to work and come home and the darkness is there, waiting for me to return. I get up, go to work and come home and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,6,5],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-depression","tag-depression-is-real","tag-depressionisreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2262,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}