{"id":3713,"date":"2021-06-02T22:33:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T02:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2021-06-02T22:38:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T02:38:48","slug":"larger-than-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/02\/larger-than-life\/","title":{"rendered":"larger than life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>so i was walking back<br \/>\nfrom the pond<br \/>\nto my car<br \/>\nslightly past<br \/>\nthe fragile moment of twilight<br \/>\nand my friends were following behind me<br \/>\nshining a phone flash<br \/>\nto light the way<br \/>\nand ahead of me<br \/>\nlarger than life<br \/>\nwas this magnificent<br \/>\ndetailed dark shadow<br \/>\nof myself<br \/>\nmore real<br \/>\nthan any hollywood image<br \/>\nor high end vr video game<br \/>\ndeep, strong, confident<br \/>\nand all encompassing<br \/>\nit was spectacularly silent<br \/>\nyet ever present<br \/>\nin the meaningful moment<br \/>\nof now<br \/>\nand i must admit that i was<br \/>\nsomewhat in awe<br \/>\nbut strangely comfortable<br \/>\nwith the idea<br \/>\nthat this positively negative entity<br \/>\nencompassing the dim landscape<br \/>\nwas guiding the way<br \/>\nso much so<br \/>\nthat i just had to write<br \/>\nthis totally<br \/>\ninadequate poem<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/525-larger-than-life.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3723\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/525-larger-than-life-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"525-larger-than-life\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/525-larger-than-life-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/525-larger-than-life-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/525-larger-than-life.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/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-3713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713","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=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3724,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions\/3724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}