{"id":406,"date":"2019-09-06T19:02:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T18:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johntownshend.com\/wordpress\/?p=406"},"modified":"2019-09-06T19:02:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T18:02:07","slug":"paper-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/paper-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s got paper skin; peeling away, red ink and all.<br \/>\nThe words don&#8217;t matter; he is what he feels.<br \/>\nHe lashes out at those around him; so fragile.<br \/>\nFull of yesterdays news but he hasn&#8217;t read anything.<\/p>\n<p>His paper skin doesn&#8217;t inform.<br \/>\nHe won&#8217;t let you close; he&#8217;s so ashamed.<br \/>\nNot of himself because he&#8217;s always right.<br \/>\nJust ashamed of his words; it doesn&#8217;t add up in his head.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a patch on his arse that once was page 3.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the only bit he likes.<br \/>\n&#8216;Not vulgar, this is moral instruction.&#8217; Is it&#8217;s message.<br \/>\nFlesh on flesh and it just stinks.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, all of his paper skin smells rather bad. Unelected and unwanted. A buffoon at 10. He&#8217;s a buffoon all day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s got paper skin; peeling away, red ink and all. The words don&#8217;t matter; he is what he feels. He lashes out at those around him; so fragile. Full of yesterdays news but he hasn&#8217;t read anything. His paper skin doesn&#8217;t inform. He won&#8217;t let you close; he&#8217;s so ashamed. Not of himself because he&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/paper-skin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paper skin<\/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":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","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=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}