{"id":173,"date":"2008-10-20T18:53:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T16:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/?p=173"},"modified":"2008-10-20T18:54:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T16:54:18","slug":"point-of-no-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/archives\/173","title":{"rendered":"Point of no return"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\">\n<strong>Point of no return<\/strong><br \/>\nby Tamir Buchshtav<br \/>\nbased on &quot;the Point of No Return&quot; from Phantom of the Opera<br \/>\nCaptain:<br \/>\nWe have come here,<br \/>\nIn pursuit of our fondest dream,<br \/>\nIn pursuit of the wish towards which we aspired,<br \/>\nAspired\u2026<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We have loaded,<br \/>\nAll we owned and all we could fund,<br \/>\nIn our minds we\u2019ve already began our work,<br \/>\nDropped from high orbit made landfall began to work,<br \/>\nNow we are here in space, no second thoughts,<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve decided,<br \/>\nDecided\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Past, the point of no return,<br \/>\nNo backward glances,<br \/>\nThe games we\u2019ve played till now are at an end\u2026<br \/>\nPast, all thoughts of turning back,<br \/>\nNo way to earth now,<br \/>\nPrepare yourselves and let our dream begin\u2026<br \/>\nWhat brand new lands shall fill our eyes?<br \/>\nWhat new horizons fill our lives?<br \/>\nWhat new adventures lie before us?<br \/>\nPast the point of no return,<br \/>\nThe final threshold,<br \/>\nWhat warm unearthly sunshine shall we gain?<br \/>\nBeyond the point of no return.<\/p>\n<p>Colonists:<br \/>\nYou have brought us,<br \/>\nTo that moment where words run dry,<br \/>\nTo that moment where speech disappears into silence,<br \/>\nSilence\u2026<br \/>\nWe have come here,<br \/>\nHardly caring what world we find,<br \/>\nIn our minds we\u2019ve already imagined,<br \/>\nOur colony thriving, our children all growing,<br \/>\nAnd now we are here at last,<br \/>\nNo second thoughts,<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve decided,<br \/>\nDecided\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Past the point of no return,<br \/>\nNo going back now,<br \/>\nOur greatest wish has now come true at last\u2026<br \/>\nPast all thoughts of going back,<br \/>\nOne final question:<br \/>\nHow long we have to wait before we land<br \/>\nWhen will the fire begin to burn,<br \/>\nOur ship at last begin to land,<br \/>\nOur journey finally finished?<\/p>\n<p>All:<br \/>\nPast the point of no return,<br \/>\nThe final threshold,<br \/>\nThe bridge is crossed so stand and watch it burn,<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve passed the point of no return.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Point of no return by Tamir Buchshtav based on &quot;the Point of No Return&quot; from Phantom of the Opera Captain: We have come here, In pursuit of our fondest dream, In pursuit of the wish towards which we aspired, Aspired\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}