{"id":248,"date":"2014-08-18T17:58:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T21:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2014-08-18T17:58:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T21:58:50","slug":"my-other-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/18\/my-other-half\/","title":{"rendered":"my other half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>there&#8217;s a little<br \/>\ndevil trapped inside me<br \/>\nnot sitting on my shoulder<br \/>\nbut peeking through my<br \/>\neyes<br \/>\nhe likes to come out<br \/>\nat night, mostly<br \/>\nwhen secrets are made<br \/>\nwhen he escapes<br \/>\nit&#8217;s always the same<br \/>\na flood of entertaining<br \/>\nmischief<br \/>\ni try to keep him<br \/>\ndown, subdued<br \/>\ncontrolled<br \/>\nbecause I know how it&#8217;ll end<br \/>\nfor you see it&#8217;s a<br \/>\ngame<br \/>\nwe play<br \/>\nback and forth<br \/>\nhim and i<br \/>\npassion vs reason<br \/>\ni tell him solitude<br \/>\nis good, for some<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nhe shows me it&#8217;s hell<br \/>\nfor others<br \/>\nhe changes the rules<br \/>\nevery time<br \/>\nto confuse me<br \/>\nbecause he knows<br \/>\ni\u2019ll almost certainly<br \/>\nlet him win<br \/>\nthe thrill is in the battle<br \/>\nof will&#8217;s<br \/>\nconflict<br \/>\nwith<br \/>\nno real resolution<br \/>\nover and over again<br \/>\ntill i&#8217;m left with<br \/>\nmyself<\/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-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","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=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}