{"id":1044,"date":"2020-06-25T17:29:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T21:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lydiaink.com\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2020-09-20T19:45:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T23:45:26","slug":"life-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/25\/life-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Picture this if it\u2019s that damn hard for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A man stands upon a lifeboat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The icy freshwater waves soar in sharp shards<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sound of the November wind drowns sound<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The wooden hull with life\u2019s goods crushes before you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look about once\u2013just once,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the lowering storm clouds, no land in sight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if you have an ounce of imagination outside of your<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Self-gratifying, sensualism feel the freezing cold<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Make your grave here and drown without Reason.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or make for the lifeboat and stand your ground on<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shore of life &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My brother, you have powerful argument,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You have good points, let us bring those to the ear of One<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who listens without patronizing&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Come now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture this if it\u2019s that damn hard for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-poetry-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}