{"id":1408,"date":"2018-03-01T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2018-03-01T07:23:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T12:23:13","slug":"the-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/01\/the-notebook\/","title":{"rendered":"the notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>sitting on broken benches<br \/>\nwe stare out tiny windows<br \/>\nlike broken old men<br \/>\nreliving middle school glories<\/p>\n<p>three, two, one<\/p>\n<p>time drips in and out<br \/>\nwith thoughts that are<br \/>\nslippery and elusive<br \/>\nand it seems<br \/>\ncharcoal lips<br \/>\nspeak words<br \/>\nto positive<br \/>\nand terrible to hear<br \/>\nas we try to conceive<br \/>\nhow to do the wrong thing<br \/>\nthe right way<\/p>\n<p>healing takes time<br \/>\nso the question is<br \/>\ndo we wait for insanity to pass us by<br \/>\nor let it settle in for the long haul<\/p>\n<p>minds are not like<br \/>\ncomputer hard drives<br \/>\nin the absence of<br \/>\nan internal delete button<br \/>\nwe risk choosing to repeat<br \/>\nan altered fantasy<br \/>\nin hopes of a better outcome<br \/>\n(that is the moment when insanity arrives)<\/p>\n<p>the only protection it seems<br \/>\nis pen and paper<\/p>\n<p>this notebook you gave me<br \/>\nhas saved me<br \/>\ni think you knew it would<\/p>\n<p>thank you<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/218-the-notebook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1411\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/218-the-notebook-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"218-the-notebook\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/218-the-notebook-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/218-the-notebook-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/218-the-notebook.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[52,53,54],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-healing","tag-notebook","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}