{"id":5816,"date":"2011-10-24T05:56:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T04:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=5816"},"modified":"2011-10-24T05:56:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T04:56:30","slug":"the-beginning-of-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=5816","title":{"rendered":"The beginning of the end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sitting in bed with, on my left, our marriage certificate and, on my right, the completed divorce papers that I shall send to the court, this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The former is a reminder of a happier day, a time when the things that have happened in the last few weeks would have been unimaginable.<\/p>\n<p>The latter brings everything in to focus, it is a statement that there really is no turning back.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, this makes me sad.<\/p>\n<p>I look at the details of her sins against our wedding vows, spelt out in honest terms in the court documents.<\/p>\n<p>And I still feel sad.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could turn the clock back; wish I could fix things before they occurred.<\/p>\n<p>But I can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>This is the real world; a place where pain and sadness now seem to live with me, every day.<\/p>\n<p>I shall post these documents this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>And I shall continue to feel sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sitting in bed with, on my left, our marriage certificate and, on my right, the completed divorce papers that I shall send to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}