{"id":3446,"date":"2016-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2016-03-31T22:59:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:59:47","slug":"a-for-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=3446","title":{"rendered":"A for Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;When I&#8217;m with you, I&#8217;m standing with an army.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>~ Army by Ellie Goulding<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of my songs <em>du jour<\/em> is Ellie Goulding\u2019s <em>Army<\/em> which is essentially a love song about how someone stands by the person he or she loves despite naysayers.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly like the chorus which has the lyrics I quoted above. I love how that simple sentence says so much with the imagery it conjures.<\/p>\n<p>It would be nice to find that special someone who can be my army and me his. While this person is absent from my life at the moment, it doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t have my army.<\/p>\n<p>My army comprises my family, close friends, and inner circle of friends.&nbsp; They are the ones who are there to protect, defend and comfort me when I&#8217;m vulnerable. I am truly blessed to have them in my life.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you have your own army too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When I&#8217;m with you, I&#8217;m standing with an army.&#8221; ~ Army by Ellie Goulding One of my songs du jour is Ellie Goulding\u2019s Army which is essentially a love song about how someone stands by the person he or she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=3446\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3447,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions\/3447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}