{"id":33,"date":"2005-03-13T00:35:29","date_gmt":"2005-03-13T08:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbueno.com\/wp\/meisakuki\/2005\/03\/13\/a_chance_to_get_it_right\/"},"modified":"2005-03-13T00:35:29","modified_gmt":"2005-03-13T08:35:29","slug":"a_chance_to_get_it_right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/2005\/03\/13\/a_chance_to_get_it_right\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chance to Get It Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t really know till tonight the kind of effect my one-year-old nephew has on me. Even though he lives in Chicago, the idea of him is comfort enough.<br \/>\nI also never thought I&#8217;d be using an Andrew Vachss title as a reference point for a lyric, let alone write from the (what I imagine would be the) perspective of a new parent.<br \/>\nBut nonetheless, I dashed off some lyrics for the music I just completed, putting <i>Imprint<\/i> all that much closer to completion. So here is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eponymous4.com\/audio\/17\/play\/\">A Chance to Get It Right<\/a>&#8220;.<br \/>\n&#8220;A Chance to Get It Right&#8221;<br \/>\nMarch 13, 2005<br \/>\nIn the moment we first met<br \/>\nHow could I anticipate what I felt?<br \/>\nEverything I knew before<br \/>\nJust didn&#8217;t seem to work<br \/>\nAll you did was be yourself<br \/>\nIt worked like a magic charm (perfectly)<br \/>\nNothing I knew till that point<br \/>\nSeemed relevant at all<br \/>\n<i>I thought that I was the kind<br \/>\nTo pass on my own mistakes<br \/>\nYou give me one more chance<br \/>\nA chance to get it right<\/i><br \/>\nIn those moments since we met<br \/>\nYou engage me with your charm (perfectly)<br \/>\nI just hope that I provide<br \/>\nA path you want to take<br \/>\n<i>&#8216;Cos I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m the kind<br \/>\nTo pass on my own mistakes<br \/>\nYou give me one more chance<br \/>\nA chance to get it right<\/i><br \/>\nI may not have known the value<br \/>\nOf giving selflessly<br \/>\nBut you are the reason I would<br \/>\nDo so much more<br \/>\nIn the moment we first met<br \/>\nHow could I anticipate what I&#8217;d feel?<br \/>\nEverything I knew before<br \/>\nEverything I know right now<br \/>\nI just hope that it&#8217;s enough<br \/>\nFor me to get it right<br \/>\nYou are one more chance<br \/>\nA chance to get it right<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never thought I&#8217;d be using an Andrew Vachss title as a reference point for a lyric, let alone write from the (what I imagine would be the) perspective of a new parent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkir-x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/meisakuki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}