{"id":702,"date":"2020-10-17T16:36:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T15:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johntownshend.com\/wordpress\/?p=702"},"modified":"2020-10-17T16:36:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T15:36:59","slug":"the-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/the-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What could I say?<br \/>She let the clock do the talking.<br \/>I can&#8217;t listen to the tick.<br \/>Desperate to hear words<\/p>\n<p>My mind won&#8217;t click into gear.<br \/>Cogs turning<br \/>Racing thoughts<br \/>Subdued response.<\/p>\n<p>I ask myself what I want to say.<br \/>Metronomic, predictable<br \/>My mind isn&#8217;t that.<br \/>Constant chaos. Fire leaks through me.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you are well.<br \/>And I do<br \/>But is it enough<br \/>Does it really matter?<\/p>\n<p>Hope is the water that calms my fire.<br \/>Ticking is my enemy that winds me up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What could I say?She let the clock do the talking.I can&#8217;t listen to the tick.Desperate to hear words My mind won&#8217;t click into gear.Cogs turningRacing thoughtsSubdued response. I ask myself what I want to say.Metronomic, predictableMy mind isn&#8217;t that.Constant chaos. Fire leaks through me. I hope you are well.And I doBut is it enoughDoes it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/the-clock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Clock<\/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-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","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=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}