{"id":201,"date":"2014-06-18T18:09:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T22:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2014-06-18T18:09:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T22:09:49","slug":"backyard-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2014\/06\/18\/backyard-observer\/","title":{"rendered":"backyard observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>sitting in a tattered lawn chair<br \/>\nlooking over the restless city at night<br \/>\nwith only the sound of unwilling traffic<br \/>\nto guide my thoughts<br \/>\ni see<br \/>\ndim lights trying vainly to illuminate dull lives<br \/>\nbitter men drink cheap beer<br \/>\nand lonely women watch bad TV<br \/>\ncurious cats and schizophrenic dogs waiting anxiously<br \/>\nfor attention from their human slaves<br \/>\nblissfully ignorant children sleeping in their beds<br \/>\ndreaming of zombies and video games<br \/>\na starving artist remembering that magic<br \/>\nmoment in the big city with a special girl<br \/>\nempty churches and full motels<br \/>\nmurky moonlit clouds obscuring<br \/>\nboth hope and desolation<br \/>\nof dying poets and homeless prophets searching<br \/>\nfor inspiration and bottles of wine<br \/>\na sea of tired faces<br \/>\nscarred with the marks of a<br \/>\nsoul crushing 9-5 job<br \/>\nphony smiles and fake hellos<br \/>\nrandom encounters in bars<br \/>\nwith soulless pop music deafening untrained ears<br \/>\nred lights that nobody pays attention to<br \/>\ncops waiting, searching for the next victim<br \/>\nand who could forget the two lonely souls<br \/>\nseparated by circumstance<br \/>\nperhaps unaware of one another<br \/>\nbut dreaming of each other all the same<br \/>\nall this I see<br \/>\nthrough a confused philosophers eyes<br \/>\nwaiting,\u2026hoping that my time too will come<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","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=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}