{"id":273,"date":"2014-09-05T22:02:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T02:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2014-09-05T22:02:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T02:02:02","slug":"at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/05\/at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"at night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>nights spent with a book<br \/>\nor a computer (that infernal machine)<br \/>\nwatching a mystery<br \/>\nunfold economically<br \/>\nin the eyes of my cats<br \/>\nsometimes they speak to me<br \/>\nand there&#8217;s always music<br \/>\nI flirted with the idea<br \/>\nof leaving it all behind<br \/>\none ride away from destiny<br \/>\nbecause I know<br \/>\nin a past life I was a priest<br \/>\nor a monk, drunk with solitude<br \/>\nnow I&#8217;m just a peasant<br \/>\nhalf drunk with loneliness<br \/>\nand we all know<br \/>\nit&#8217;s always dark<br \/>\nin the northeast<br \/>\nbut it&#8217;s quiet here<br \/>\nthankfully<br \/>\nand I think<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s quite all right<br \/>\nI&#8217;d rather live a<br \/>\nthousand nights like this<br \/>\nthan one more day<br \/>\nof questioning, running<br \/>\nto and from<br \/>\nthe normal life<br \/>\nto be average is<br \/>\nthe greatest sin<\/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-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","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=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}