{"id":449,"date":"2003-06-04T11:32:08","date_gmt":"2003-06-04T19:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=449"},"modified":"2026-06-19T09:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T13:36:20","slug":"you-choose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=449","title":{"rendered":"You Choose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--95287297-->Yep. It&#8217;s all my own damn fault.<br \/>\n<i>Choosing to love is risking a lot and trying to change and to give all you&#8217;ve got. But don&#8217;t pretend it comes out of the blue. You take a chance and see it through and if it&#8217;s refused what can you do? Continue hopefully? Start anew? Lick your wounds. Buy your booze. You won&#8217;t get drunk by accident. You&#8217;ll choose. Don&#8217;t blame him for refusing your bid. He didn&#8217;t decide to love. You did. Learn the lesson. Take the blows. You didn&#8217;t fall in love by chance. You chose. Play the sad songs. Sing the blues. You don&#8217;t fall in love by chance. You choose.<\/i><br \/>\nWords: Neil Tennant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep. It&#8217;s all my own damn fault. Choosing to love is risking a lot and trying to change and to give all you&#8217;ve got. But don&#8217;t pretend it comes out of the blue. You take a chance and see it through and if it&#8217;s refused what can you do? Continue hopefully? Start anew? Lick your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-7f","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11217,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/11217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}