{"id":337,"date":"2015-01-10T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2015-01-10T09:00:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T14:00:15","slug":"just-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/10\/just-once\/","title":{"rendered":"just once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>last night&#8217;s glass of rum<br \/>\nsat stale on my nightstand<br \/>\ni just wanted one day of peace<br \/>\nbut there was &#8220;work&#8221; to be done<br \/>\nhunched over cross legged in a chair<br \/>\ni was sick and unable to write<br \/>\nit was cold outside and<br \/>\nthe clock was ticking it&#8217;s usual boredom<br \/>\nthe coffee hit my stomach hard<br \/>\nbowels angry with bad living<br \/>\nthat cursor was a curse<br \/>\nblinking, staring<br \/>\n&#8220;if i write it will all go away&#8221; i thought<br \/>\nat least for a moment<br \/>\nnot true<br \/>\nand i\u2019m almost there<br \/>\nit seems that the angel of sadness<br \/>\nhas left me<br \/>\nand the devil of complacency<br \/>\nhas taken her place<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s nothing to write today<br \/>\nno dreams, no sex<br \/>\nno profound thoughts<br \/>\nlife isn&#8217;t always poetry<br \/>\nand when you&#8217;re an adult<br \/>\nweekends have no meaning<br \/>\nnot like when you were a kid<br \/>\ncozy on the couch<br \/>\nwith sugary cereals and<br \/>\nsaturday morning cartoons<br \/>\nkeeping you in a trance<br \/>\nas you tried not to<br \/>\nwake the sleeping giant<br \/>\ni\u2019ve lived multiple lives<br \/>\nin such a short span<br \/>\nbut sunday is coming<br \/>\n&#8220;the lord&#8217;s day&#8221;, not really<br \/>\njust another day to be<br \/>\nfat dumb and happy<\/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-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","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=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}