{"id":1688,"date":"2019-08-02T15:47:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T19:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2019-08-02T15:47:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T19:47:50","slug":"my-magical-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/?p=1688","title":{"rendered":"My Magical Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>My Magical Weapon<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s hard to think about the magical weapon that I possess. The reason being, that I don\u2019t consider it out of the ordinary, no matter how many times I\u2019ve had to use it. It\u2019s not even secret, I don\u2019t even try to conceal it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I come upon conflicting parties in a major dispute, I just unleash my weapon and use it to save the situation at hand. At least I try to. It is powerful, yet doesn\u2019t use much energy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was once in a situation where I found a totally distraught individual. They had been beaten down emotionally. They had lost the power to fight back and was ready to give in to their despair and loss. I gathered up the energy from my weapon and released its power. Consumed with the power, I let it caress the worn and broken down victim. And though the problem that initiated the stress was not solved, its power was diminished. No longer could it control its prey. The gray skies that had filled the sky began to show patches of blue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don\u2019t always get thanked for my weapon\u2019s assistance; sometimes it isn\u2019t even acknowledged. I seek no reward. It just is what I carry with me, to use when needed. Though magical, it is far from unique. Hopefully, when used, it imparts pieces of itself in those that I do aid. That, if anything, is its purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My secret weapon goes by many names, \u201ckindness\u201d, \u201ccompassion\u201d, \u201cempathy\u201d, \u201clove\u201d. Keep an eye out for it. You may even own it yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Magical Weapon It\u2019s hard to think about the magical weapon that I possess. The reason being, that I don\u2019t consider it out of the ordinary, no matter how many times I\u2019ve had to use it. It\u2019s not even secret, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/?p=1688\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[67,179],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-stories","category-story-writing","tag-harvey-heilbrun","tag-magical"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1689,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions\/1689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhstory.net\/Storyblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}