{"id":113905,"date":"2016-02-15T04:25:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T04:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/15\/theres-something-in-the-saga-of-bucky-barnes\/"},"modified":"2016-02-15T04:25:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T04:25:21","slug":"theres-something-in-the-saga-of-bucky-barnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/15\/theres-something-in-the-saga-of-bucky-barnes\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026there\u2019s something in the saga of Bucky Barnes that resonates. If you\u2019ve ever felt like you couldn\u2019t escape some horrible piece of your past, he\u2019s a character for you. If you\u2019ve ever been expected to measure up to an impossible standard, he\u2019s a character for you. If you\u2019ve ever had to sit and wrestle with your demons in silence because, for one reason or another, you just couldn\u2019t speak up about them to anyone\u2014here\u2019s Bucky Barnes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll match you ghost for ghost, burden for burden, demon for demon, and he\u2019ll still get up again the next morning. He\u2019ll make fun of himself sometimes, and he\u2019ll play the hardened cynic, even though he\u2019s really got a squishy romantic heart that\u2019s far too close to his brittle surface.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>post by Rebekah on <i>The Mask Blog<\/i>, March 24, 2014 (<a href=\"http:\/\/themasksblog.blogspot.com\/2014_03_01_archive.html\" target=\"_blank\">x<\/a>)<\/p>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/84ac4500c1b9c7b1d7f379463c7559eb\/tumblr_inline_o2ch66eNAU1rlnpdp_540.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>I never really thought about it before, but this is so very true.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026there\u2019s something in the saga of Bucky Barnes that resonates. If you\u2019ve ever felt like you couldn\u2019t escape some horrible piece of your past, he\u2019s a character for you. If you\u2019ve ever been expected to measure up to an impossible standard, he\u2019s a character for you. If you\u2019ve ever had to sit and wrestle with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/02\/15\/theres-something-in-the-saga-of-bucky-barnes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[31,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}