{"id":686,"date":"2020-10-12T14:15:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T13:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johntownshend.com\/wordpress\/?p=686"},"modified":"2020-10-12T14:15:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T13:15:41","slug":"fragments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/fragments\/","title":{"rendered":"Fragments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before we lost it all we had everything but each other.<br>I hope you can heal and not make the same mistakes twice.<br>I wanted you to be mine for forever but you assumed I did not.<br>Yes, you learned I am not perfect. Now you have moved on. Ask him before assuming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can&#8217;t write. I wish I could write. I don&#8217;t want to write. I don&#8217;t need to write. I can put a smile on someone&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A flicker from a candle. <br>Steam rising from a mug. <br>A cold evening with no heating. <br>I&#8217;m not doing everything I should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Experience from my fleshy brain doesn&#8217;t matter.<br>Material. Numb. Medicated and subdued.<br>People are afraid of me. People hate my labels.<br>I cannot convince them all.<br>Universal consciousness abandoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Typing on my laptop makes a rhythmic beat on my keyboard. Exquisite, until I need a word I can&#8217;t spell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we lost it all we had everything but each other.I hope you can heal and not make the same mistakes twice.I wanted you to be mine for forever but you assumed I did not.Yes, you learned I am not perfect. Now you have moved on. Ask him before assuming. * * * I can&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/fragments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fragments<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","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=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}