{"id":238,"date":"2014-07-22T11:38:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T15:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=238"},"modified":"2014-07-22T11:38:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T15:38:13","slug":"i-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/22\/i-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"i shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>i am different things to different people<br \/>\ni\u2019m a confidant, an apologist,<br \/>\na know it all, and a humble hermit<br \/>\na saint, and a whore<br \/>\nto others I&#8221;m an adventurer, a lover,<br \/>\na leader, a drunk,<br \/>\na bastard,<br \/>\na clown, a sage<br \/>\nand a lost friend\u2026<br \/>\nto some I seem quiet,<br \/>\na loner, an observer<br \/>\nto others I am loud<br \/>\nand eccentric, dominate<br \/>\nin my opinions<br \/>\ni am many<br \/>\nand at times it&#8217;s hard to remember<br \/>\ni am one<br \/>\ni shift, with each new person<br \/>\nso many faces<br \/>\na schizophrenic masquerade ball<br \/>\nnot nearly enough places<br \/>\ni want to travel, experience<br \/>\nnew lives<br \/>\nbut I&#8217;m trapped, caged<br \/>\nby fear and indifference<br \/>\na shallow well<br \/>\ntrying to be filled<br \/>\ni\u2019m a bad artist<br \/>\nliving the good life<br \/>\ninstead of a good artist<br \/>\nliving the bad life<br \/>\ntoo mindful and impulsive<br \/>\na poet who is lost then found<br \/>\ndaily<br \/>\nphases of the moon<br \/>\nmarking my mood<br \/>\ni seek visions in fire<br \/>\nand wisdom at the bottom of a bottle<br \/>\njust another soldier<br \/>\nin the universal war<br \/>\ncalled life<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","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=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}