{"id":2038,"date":"2018-12-14T07:46:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T12:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2018-12-14T07:50:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T12:50:20","slug":"the-great-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/14\/the-great-shark\/","title":{"rendered":"the great shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>all worlds fall<\/p>\n<p>as gods are invented<br \/>\nthen forgotten<\/p>\n<p>as pages are written<br \/>\nwith words that betray<br \/>\nthe beauty and obsolescence<br \/>\nof a structured soul<br \/>\nstricken in an empty role<\/p>\n<p>as hands like charcoal<br \/>\nare bankrolled<br \/>\nby anonymous thieves<br \/>\nwith days spent<br \/>\nin permanent relocation<br \/>\nand momentary memories of<br \/>\nradiant reclamation<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s a passive machine gun reprieve<br \/>\npermissive and paradoxical<\/p>\n<p>as i drink, fuck<br \/>\nwrite, and think<br \/>\nabout the cold hands of destiny<br \/>\nthat always seem to caress<br \/>\nat all the wrong moments<\/p>\n<p>as prayers and invocations<br \/>\ninvite uncertainty<br \/>\nunder a mysterious sea<\/p>\n<p>perhaps the great shark<br \/>\nwill grant me<br \/>\na definition<br \/>\nother than<br \/>\ntemporary<br \/>\nand eventual<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/308-the-great-shark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2043\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/308-the-great-shark-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"308-the-great-shark\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/308-the-great-shark-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/308-the-great-shark-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/308-the-great-shark.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/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-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","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=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2044,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions\/2044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}