{"id":426,"date":"2019-09-24T18:36:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T17:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johntownshend.com\/wordpress\/?p=426"},"modified":"2019-09-24T18:36:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T17:36:03","slug":"stably-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/stably-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Stably crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I listen to the whispers from the rocks. &#8220;Don&#8217;t step on me. Step on the soil; it is silent.&#8221; The soil cannot speak but would it complain if it could?<\/p>\n<p>The grass here grows long. Thick and dense. Stems snap and screams; more screams fill my head.<\/p>\n<p>Should your voice be different? Of course, but it isn&#8217;t, at least, not always. You say &#8220;hi&#8221;. I can&#8217;t hear myself think which is just as well. I&#8217;m scared of what I might be saying.<\/p>\n<p>The cars go past my window far too fast. &#8220;Honk honk honk&#8221; someone toots. I cannot see out but it has been raining. I can hear the tyres slice up the water with a harsh crescendo that diminishes into the distance.<\/p>\n<p>Leaves are falling. That&#8217;s nice.<\/p>\n<p>I am writing nonsense again. Good. What to say? What to do?<\/p>\n<p>Why I am breathing so loud? I sleep still. All but for the bellows squeezing back and forth. Until I turn and turn and turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I listen to the whispers from the rocks. &#8220;Don&#8217;t step on me. Step on the soil; it is silent.&#8221; The soil cannot speak but would it complain if it could? The grass here grows long. Thick and dense. Stems snap and screams; more screams fill my head. Should your voice be different? Of course, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/stably-crazy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stably crazy<\/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-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}