{"id":976,"date":"2013-07-15T21:26:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T21:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illumination2.wordpress.com\/?p=976"},"modified":"2013-07-15T21:26:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T21:26:45","slug":"twilight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/15\/twilight\/","title":{"rendered":"twilight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Twilight<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height:1.5;\">what was it you said when I wasn&#8217;t listening<br \/>\n<\/span>that made the world stop when i wasn&#8217;t watching?<br \/>\nthe cicada did not give up its screeching<br \/>\njust because they were singing<\/p>\n<p>who were they\u00a0that took of the earth<br \/>\nand gave it to the heavens<br \/>\nwere they from the north or the south?<br \/>\nfrom the violent east or the restless west?<\/p>\n<p>the time of slumber is past<br \/>\nbut dreams now walk in broad day light<br \/>\nthe trees are moving, the trees are walking<br \/>\nhow do you discern the drunkard?<\/p>\n<p>shallow wells in the village square<br \/>\nhungry throats in the market place<br \/>\nrotund bellies filled with active worms<br \/>\nscabs, scabs, scabs everywhere<\/p>\n<p>I am a stranger, I am a stranger<br \/>\nI will not stay,\u00a0no, not tonight<br \/>\nthe moon is bloodied by thoughts of tomorrow<br \/>\nwhen once again sacrifice is made to the gods<\/p>\n<p>gods, gods, little gods, big gods<br \/>\ni have no gods<br \/>\nthey have neither given me milk<br \/>\nnor fish, nor succulent breast<\/p>\n<p>works of men, gods of wood<br \/>\ngive me a cutlass, give me an axe<br \/>\nlet me remake the gods<br \/>\nif I must bow, why not to self?<\/p>\n<p>* * * * * * *\u00a0* * * * * * *\u00a0* * * * * * *\u00a0* * * * * * *\u00a0* * * * * * *\u00a0* * * * * * *<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: if you wonder how much rubbish I can write in under 5 minutes, you need wonder no longer. You have it above. Nasty little thing &#8211; disappointment (that is)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twilight what was it you said when I wasn&#8217;t listening that made the world stop when i wasn&#8217;t watching? the cicada did not give up its screeching just because they were singing who were they\u00a0that took of the earth and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/15\/twilight\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[94,211,251,302,434,594,660,850,946,1027],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-axe","tag-cicada","tag-cutlass","tag-dreams","tag-god","tag-light","tag-moon","tag-rotund","tag-stranger","tag-twilight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}