{"id":774,"date":"2020-12-08T16:29:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T16:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johntownshend.com\/wordpress\/?p=774"},"modified":"2020-12-08T16:29:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T16:29:31","slug":"scattered-ants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/scattered-ants\/","title":{"rendered":"Scattered Ants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Diffused. Our bodies no longer intertwined. Breathing without our lungs we just work for the colony. Stolen hope. Stolen lives. Stolen Queen. <\/p>\n<p>Carrying a massive twig several times my size. Easily I admit but I have no audience to brag to. At least, no one who listens. How is time perceived to a lost ant finding his way in the world?<\/p>\n<p>We are many. I am few. Alone in a crowd. The same cliches trapped in my mind. Going around and around and around. What do they want this twig for anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Disenfranchised and abandoned. A cold wind is simply not felt. We are impervious. <\/p>\n<p>Likeminded support. Are they just as bad as me? <\/p>\n<p>A bunch of lies served to ease the pain. They just rewrote history and we forgot our joy. I&#8217;m sure in at least two late nineties 3D animation feature films. You can see me now. Hurting. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diffused. Our bodies no longer intertwined. Breathing without our lungs we just work for the colony. Stolen hope. Stolen lives. Stolen Queen. Carrying a massive twig several times my size. Easily I admit but I have no audience to brag to. At least, no one who listens. How is time perceived to a lost ant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/scattered-ants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scattered Ants<\/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-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","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=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}