{"id":672,"date":"2020-10-06T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T19:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johntownshend.com\/wordpress\/?p=672"},"modified":"2020-10-06T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T19:07:08","slug":"cow-sick-distance-trilogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/cow-sick-distance-trilogy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cow Sick (Distance trilogy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She wants to run away<br \/>\nInto a strangers arms<br \/>\nWeaponised love; accepted<\/p>\n<p>Her parents don&#8217;t care<br \/>\nGrandparents say she can cook<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s her pitch<\/p>\n<p>What will happen once you arrive<br \/>\nLost and stranded<br \/>\nStrange land; distant people<\/p>\n<p>She does it because she will care<br \/>\nBarely an adult; thin promise<br \/>\nA hope of better quality of life<\/p>\n<p>Cut paper; cut fingers<br \/>\nBlood on her letters<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s lost control; the words are empty<\/p>\n<p>She wants an empty suit<br \/>\nA man who works<br \/>\nA leaf on the tallest tree<\/p>\n<p>Promises, promises<br \/>\nWhat is she after<br \/>\nShe doesn&#8217;t know; she knows that much<\/p>\n<p>Do you believe in radical acceptance?<br \/>\nNo?<br \/>\nOh.<br \/>\nWell think about it. It could help.<\/p>\n<p>The world will be out to get you wherever you run. You cannot hide from yourself. Where can you go to seek shelter from pain? Within. In peace. In constant love. Conceptual romance. No bonds or knots. Alone or together. You will be fine. You will be at rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She wants to run away Into a strangers arms Weaponised love; accepted Her parents don&#8217;t care Grandparents say she can cook That&#8217;s her pitch What will happen once you arrive Lost and stranded Strange land; distant people She does it because she will care Barely an adult; thin promise A hope of better quality of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/cow-sick-distance-trilogy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cow Sick (Distance trilogy)<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","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=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}