{"id":163232,"date":"2015-03-16T19:29:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T19:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/16\/sigridellis-okay-i-have-to-talk-about-this\/"},"modified":"2018-09-09T23:42:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T23:42:34","slug":"sigridellis-okay-i-have-to-talk-about-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/16\/sigridellis-okay-i-have-to-talk-about-this\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-163232 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/16\/sigridellis-okay-i-have-to-talk-about-this\/attachment\/163233\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tumblr_n9wejsVEQo1r6a1xdo1_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tumblr_n9wejsVEQo1r6a1xdo1_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tumblr_n9wejsVEQo1r6a1xdo1_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/sigridellis.tumblr.com\/post\/111681993458\/okay-i-have-to-talk-about-this-moment-this\" target=\"_blank\">sigridellis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Okay, I have to talk about this moment.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t a moment of triumph. Steve isn\u2019t stomping on his shield in vindictiveness or spite. He\u2019d disgusted. Disgusted with them and with himself. He\u2019s angry that it came to this.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Steve Rogers TRIED to give them an out. He ASKED them to leave. He didn\u2019t WANT to fight them. Up until the very last moment, Steve hoped that these men, his fellow soldiers, would not betray him. He hoped that what he knew to be true was not true. He hoped that, whatever decisions these men had made up until the point of this elevator ride, that they would choose DIFFERENTLY now. That they would reconsider, alter their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Until the last bloody, sweating, stinking, violent moment, Steve Rogers hoped these men would become their better selves.<\/p>\n<p>He stamps down on his shield and flips it up onto his arm, surveying the wreckage at his feet. Wrecked hopes and lives, smashed honor and brotherhood. Steve picks his shield up from the ruin, disgusted and angry \u2014<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 and he still goes on to hope that every soldier he meets will be the best human being they can be.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s my Steve Rogers. That\u2019s my Captain America.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sigridellis: Okay, I have to talk about this moment. This isn\u2019t a moment of triumph. Steve isn\u2019t stomping on his shield in vindictiveness or spite. He\u2019d disgusted. Disgusted with them and with himself. He\u2019s angry that it came to this. Steve Rogers TRIED to give them an out. He ASKED them to leave. He didn\u2019t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/16\/sigridellis-okay-i-have-to-talk-about-this\/\" 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":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[7146,18211,4,191],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163232"}],"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=163232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163234,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163232\/revisions\/163234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}