{"id":272,"date":"2019-06-07T17:46:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T16:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johntownshend.com\/wordpress\/?p=272"},"modified":"2019-06-07T17:46:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T16:46:19","slug":"my-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/my-best-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"My best friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is this chaos?<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t choose to be born.<br \/>\nWhat is happening?<br \/>\nI see patterns that are destined to go awry.<\/p>\n<p>My brain is not clear and calm.<br \/>\nDriven by a predetermined tick.<br \/>\nPushing through the things I do and am going to do.<br \/>\nAn addiction is holding on: Don&#8217;t stop me yet.<\/p>\n<p>These stories start with a moment of intense change.<br \/>\nCurves flatten out and plateau.<br \/>\nYou can be the catalyst for me to refresh.<br \/>\nA starting point in every moment lived.<\/p>\n<p>To feel loved is to forgive yourself.<br \/>\nThe guilt the blame the shame.<br \/>\nStart again and learn.<br \/>\nA wobbling cycle where the circles slowly get more unstable.<\/p>\n<p>What is this chaos?<br \/>\nA dream. Nothing more.<br \/>\nWhat is happening?<br \/>\nSomething worth experiencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is this chaos? I didn&#8217;t choose to be born. What is happening? I see patterns that are destined to go awry. My brain is not clear and calm. Driven by a predetermined tick. Pushing through the things I do and am going to do. An addiction is holding on: Don&#8217;t stop me yet. These &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/my-best-friend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My best friend<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}