{"id":252,"date":"2014-08-22T07:34:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T11:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2014-08-22T07:34:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T11:34:12","slug":"tripp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/22\/tripp\/","title":{"rendered":"Tripp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The drugs took hold of me suddenly<br \/>\nI was gripped, shaken<br \/>\nfrom a dull and uninteresting<br \/>\nreality<br \/>\nIt was then that I began to catch<br \/>\na glimpse of<br \/>\nworlds hidden from a<br \/>\n9-5 existence<br \/>\nNow, the thing about LSD<br \/>\nis that there is<br \/>\nno such thing as moderation<br \/>\nOnce your mind starts to go sideways<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s no point in holding back<br \/>\nit&#8217;s best to just go with it<br \/>\nAs I sat under the moonlit tree<br \/>\npondering what had become of<br \/>\nthis twisted world, and me<br \/>\nI reached for the bottle<br \/>\nit&#8217;s shape was regal, dominate<br \/>\nI pressed it to my lips<br \/>\nand I felt<br \/>\nthe last vestiges of<br \/>\nnormalcy seeping from<br \/>\nmy bones<br \/>\nthat familiar feeling of<br \/>\nconfusion and elation<br \/>\nwas creeping up on me<br \/>\nand I knew there was no stopping it<br \/>\nof course there&#8217;s also an interesting<br \/>\nyet unfamiliar sense of joy<br \/>\nof what COULD happen<br \/>\nwhen you&#8217;re hallucinating<br \/>\nanything is possible<br \/>\nwithout warning I felt<br \/>\nthe need to get up and go<br \/>\nit was time to walk<br \/>\ntime to discover whatever<br \/>\nmysteries were off<br \/>\nin the distance<br \/>\nit was one of those trips<br \/>\nthe night was young<br \/>\nand so was I<br \/>\nthis time I knew<br \/>\nthere would be no coming back<\/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-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","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=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}