{"id":1105,"date":"2007-03-18T03:06:31","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T08:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/1105"},"modified":"2007-03-18T03:06:31","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T08:06:31","slug":"i-want-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/1105","title":{"rendered":"I want that"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><b>Lester Burnham<\/b>: [narrating] I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn&#8217;t a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time&#8230; For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout camp, watching falling stars&#8230; And yellow leaves, from the maple trees, that lined my street&#8230; Or my grandmother&#8217;s hands, and the way her skin seemed like paper&#8230; And the first time I saw my cousin Tony&#8217;s brand new Firebird&#8230; And Janie&#8230; And Janie&#8230; And&#8230; Carolyn. I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me&#8230; but it&#8217;s hard to stay mad, when there&#8217;s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I&#8217;m seeing it all at once, and it&#8217;s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that&#8217;s about to burst&#8230; And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can&#8217;t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life&#8230; You have no idea what I&#8217;m talking about, I&#8217;m sure. But don&#8217;t worry&#8230; you will someday. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hear Kevin Spacey speaking those lines at the end of American Beauty and I think, &#8220;I want to write like <i>that<\/i>.&#8221;  He gives no quarter; makes no concessions to people who might not be keeping up.  He just lays it out there and it&#8217;s amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lester Burnham: [narrating] I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn&#8217;t a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time&#8230; For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout camp, watching falling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}