Then the look in Tom\u2019s eyes softens.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou must know it too,\u201d he says, \u201cmustn\u2019t you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPardon?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a fire in you, isn\u2019t there, Mr. Loggins? An unfinished destiny? Something that was set aside for you, but which you were never strong enough to reach? Something you were for<\/i> but \u2014<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s the point? No, better to abandon dreams. Better to settle for a life without purpose than to grasp without success at dreams. You set it all aside, you drowned the little fires in you, you could not weave them together into a flame, and now \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Then the look in Tom\u2019s eyes softens. \u201cYou must know it too,\u201d he says, \u201cmustn\u2019t you?\u201d \u201cPardon?\u201d \u201cThere is a fire in you, isn\u2019t there, Mr. Loggins? An unfinished destiny? Something that was set aside for you, but which you were never strong enough to reach? Something you were for but \u2014 \u201cWhat\u2019s the point? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-4405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stomping-the-world-round-chapter-5","series-stwr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Black_Hat_Partially_Chained.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6259,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions\/6259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}