
{"id":371,"date":"2011-05-13T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/?page_id=371"},"modified":"2011-05-13T15:58:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T15:58:09","slug":"going-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/lonelytimes\/going-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here I am again<br \/>\nToo many empty promises<br \/>\nlistening to others instead of myself<br \/>\nGod, where have I been?<br \/>\nOne of the hardest decisions I&#8217;ll ever have to make<br \/>\nGrade school, High school, college<br \/>\nTeacher to teacher, professor to professor, class to class<br \/>\nSo much useless information&#8230; so much&#8230; so fake<br \/>\nPolitics entwines with a sincere effort to make it<br \/>\n&#8220;You&#8217;ll make it&#8221;, they say.<br \/>\n&#8220;You&#8217;ll succeed&#8221;<br \/>\nNot realizing what they are really saying<br \/>\nAnd you know what?<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not making it, I&#8217;m not succeeding, and I can&#8217;t take it<br \/>\nBecause I&#8217;ve had enough of this feeling of being let down<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s up to me now and only me, no one else to blame<br \/>\nIf I don&#8217;t succeed now, I can honestly say it was my fault<br \/>\nI have no one else to point the finger<br \/>\nthere is no one else left to let me down (except myself)<br \/>\nSo where am I going from here?<br \/>\nWell, look at where I have been<br \/>\nI have set myself up for disappointment<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s only natural that instead of success, I am filled with fear<br \/>\nThus, I am going no where<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here I am again Too many empty promises listening to others instead of myself God, where have I been? One of the hardest decisions I&#8217;ll ever have to make Grade school, High school, college Teacher to teacher, professor to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/lonelytimes\/going-nowhere\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"parent":109,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/371\/revisions\/372"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}