{"id":3778,"date":"2021-06-18T07:37:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T11:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2021-06-18T07:37:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T11:37:41","slug":"something-for-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/18\/something-for-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"something for nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>it isn&#8217;t free<br \/>\nthis crazy focus<br \/>\nslipping through<br \/>\nsorcery and shadows<br \/>\nwith passive satisfaction<br \/>\nit takes time<br \/>\nrushing against<br \/>\nartificial deadlines<br \/>\nof work, and sleep<br \/>\nit takes sour emotion<br \/>\nbouncing between anxious heartbeats<br \/>\nit takes fuel<br \/>\nto run this fatal engine<br \/>\nfuel that always burns too fast<br \/>\nand leaves you empty and obscure<br \/>\nin this fabricated reality<br \/>\nit takes alchemy<br \/>\nto create ugly order<br \/>\nout of beautiful chaos<br \/>\nit takes passion<br \/>\nextracting strength from weakness<br \/>\nit&#8217;s ritual, an obsession<br \/>\nthat burns the darkness<br \/>\nand waits for<br \/>\nanother tragic moment<br \/>\nof shaded bliss<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/534-something-for-nothing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/534-something-for-nothing-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"534-something-for-nothing\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/534-something-for-nothing-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/534-something-for-nothing-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/534-something-for-nothing.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/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-3778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778","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=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3782,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions\/3782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}