{"id":275,"date":"2014-09-05T22:20:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T02:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2014-09-05T22:20:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T02:20:44","slug":"cold-pavement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/05\/cold-pavement\/","title":{"rendered":"cold pavement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>tell me why the streets<br \/>\nare so empty<br \/>\non a friday night<br \/>\nwhere are the teenagers<br \/>\nwandering and high on life<br \/>\nor the mid life folks<br \/>\ndrunk and desperate for more?<br \/>\nWhere are all the stray tomcats<br \/>\nand scrawny dogs?<br \/>\nAnd why am I such an old soul?<br \/>\nCould it be that I have yet to learn?<br \/>\nLiving this far out you can almost<br \/>\nfeel the silence,<br \/>\neerie and calm<br \/>\nquestioning, always searching<br \/>\nfor a meaning that was lost<br \/>\nor forgotten long ago<br \/>\nat 9pm we&#8217;re all just waiting<br \/>\nfor something big<br \/>\nto happen, a surprise<br \/>\na shock to the senses<br \/>\nwill it come?<br \/>\ni gave up the fast beats of pop culture<br \/>\nfor the slow notes of classical music<br \/>\ncall me old, fuck it<br \/>\nbeer goes down better<br \/>\nin those quiet moments<br \/>\ni always liked the old timers<br \/>\nsomething about being a curmudgeon<br \/>\nfierce, calculating, and resolute<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s how I wanna be<br \/>\nwhen I grow up<br \/>\nbut the youth can keep up<br \/>\nwith the dawn, and still go strong<br \/>\ni prefer the noble balance<\/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-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","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=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}