{"id":12,"date":"2008-05-01T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/?p=12"},"modified":"2016-05-16T21:56:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T01:56:35","slug":"i-know-we-can-make-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/2008\/05\/i-know-we-can-make-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I Know We Can Make It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am no longer in my room upstairs. I have moved down to the basement into my brothers area. It is by choice since I am having a hard time dealing with the sounds of the gang fights.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-179\" title=\"havok star - Ninja Tools\" src=\"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/havok-star-710957.jpg\" alt=\"havok star - Ninja Tools\" width=\"200\" height=\"195\" \/>Being down here is going to take some getting used to. There is Karate stuff all over the walls. Nunchucks, uniforms, ninja stars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Daniel, what are those ninja stars for?&#8221; I ask him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;they are called Shurikens, They are for throwing at your enemy! You never know when you have to protect yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wow! they look pretty dangerous. I have a feeling I know what he needs to protect himself from.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Forget that! pass me my shirt, I need to iron it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I reach over for his shirt on the bed and hand it to him. I forgot about the ninja stars &amp; just kept checking out this place. There are no windows down here. Just some weight equipment on the floor &amp; Disco music spinning on the turntable. Tonight, my brother is getting ready to head out to the Disco. Ahh! over there, up agaist the wall is my new bed! That&#8217;s where I can put my stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Over in the bathroom, my brother continues getting ready. He is blow drying his hair, applying some cologne &amp; ironing his bell bottom pants. Boy! I am not a fan of disco &amp; that music is blasting!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;We can make it, if we try<br \/>\nwe can make it, touch the sky<br \/>\nwe can make it, if we try<br \/>\nwe can make it, get on high&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I lay down on my bed, I close my eyes and just imagine Donna Summer&#8217;s words just running thru my head. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psolis.com\/audio\/Donna%20Summer%20-%20Try%20Me%20I%20Know%20We%20Can%20Make%20It.m3u\"> (MP3)<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<object id=\"audio_MakeIt\" data=\"http:\/\/www.psolis.com\/audio\/player.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"290\" height=\"50\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.psolis.com\/audio\/player.swf\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"playerID=audio_MakeIt&amp;soundFile=http:\/\/www.psolis.com\/audio\/Donna%20Summer%20-%20Try%20Me%20I%20Know%20We%20Can%20Make%20It.mp3\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>For some reason the lyrics seem to have a calming effect on me.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly I get the feeling that just by being down here, things will be better. Being with my brother &amp; seeing his space, I feel that yes, we can make it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am no longer in my room upstairs. I have moved down to the basement into my brothers area. It is by choice since I am having a hard time dealing with the sounds of the gang fights. Being down here is going to take some getting used to. There is Karate stuff all over &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/2008\/05\/i-know-we-can-make-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Know We Can Make It&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24,28],"tags":[32,14,3,33],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-hood","category-the-bronx","tag-family","tag-mp3","tag-music","tag-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/psolis.com\/thepoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}