{"id":425,"date":"2015-07-06T08:07:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T12:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2015-07-06T08:07:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T12:07:37","slug":"four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/06\/four\/","title":{"rendered":"four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>i don&#8217;t drink much anymore<br \/>\nthe screen door is broken<br \/>\nwith rusty hinges and no springs<br \/>\nand theres bullet holes<br \/>\nin the heart of man<br \/>\nfour women<br \/>\nthree past<br \/>\nand one unknown<br \/>\nlies heaped upon lies<br \/>\nprocessed and prepackaged words<br \/>\nthis is how it begins now<br \/>\nit just doesn&#8217;t come easy anymore<br \/>\ndaily babble<br \/>\nand betrayal<br \/>\ncaught in a bohemian fantasy<br \/>\nand born twenty years too late<br \/>\nlooking through the plate glass windows<br \/>\nall the children have been chased away<br \/>\nby tired old men smug in their certainty<br \/>\ni walked four miles<br \/>\nhoping to find communion<br \/>\nin a virtual city of strangers<br \/>\nbut rumination has spoiled my mood<br \/>\nscratching and dripping with sweat<br \/>\nfrom mosquito bites and a stale river breeze<br \/>\nall that&#8217;s left is<br \/>\nthe distant sound<br \/>\nof bad covers<br \/>\nand laughter on pavement<br \/>\nhow many times must this game be played<br \/>\nwalking walking always walking<br \/>\nso little talking<br \/>\nworking that next beat<br \/>\nlook up man look around<br \/>\nthere must be at least one cabal<br \/>\ncapable of cacophonous calculations<br \/>\nto guide me through this blistering night<\/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-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","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=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}