
{"id":402,"date":"2011-06-22T15:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/?page_id=402"},"modified":"2011-06-22T15:01:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T15:01:10","slug":"broken-window","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/miscthoughts\/broken-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to decide whether I like life or not<br \/>\nI&#8217;m debating past actions compared to present<br \/>\nHave I changed, progressed, moved forward<br \/>\nAm I now where I wanted to be<br \/>\nI walk along a lake and look at the water<br \/>\nI see my reflection, yet it is distorted<br \/>\nI see me but not really<br \/>\nI just exist<br \/>\nWhat happened to the laughter, the struggle for my mouth to curve upward instead of down<br \/>\nThe pain felt in my neck as I try to lift my head high and not let it soar down<br \/>\nI can see the ground<br \/>\nI can feel the agony the ground must feel as I take each seemingly gigantic step forward (or is it back?)<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t step on the cracks<br \/>\nBut, then where would I step?<br \/>\nI wish she would have stayed<br \/>\nI look into a broken window and notice my reflection<br \/>\nHow clear, how oddly clear I appear through each broken piece of glass<br \/>\nHow pieceful my face looks<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s a piece, there&#8217;s a piece<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a whole in the window as big as the one in my soul<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t push too hard or the whole thing will go<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t push too hard or my soul will break<br \/>\nlike a shattered window, a shattered life<br \/>\nYet, look how clear I appear through so many broken pieces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to decide whether I like life or not I&#8217;m debating past actions compared to present Have I changed, progressed, moved forward Am I now where I wanted to be I walk along a lake and look at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/miscthoughts\/broken-window\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"parent":97,"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\/402"}],"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=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/402\/revisions\/404"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}