{"id":1927,"date":"2001-09-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-10T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2020-07-24T23:08:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T03:08:46","slug":"poem-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1927","title":{"rendered":"[Poem] Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comes too easily to me<br \/>\nbeat thumping my sternum<br \/>\nmind grasping at grammar<\/p>\n<p>I have the desire<br \/>\nto reach out to<br \/>\nsomeone who doesn&#8217;t yet know<br \/>\nme<br \/>\nand ask for help.<\/p>\n<p>This is difficult.<br \/>\nMiiiiiiiiiiiind-bending<br \/>\nMakes me chuckle at one more<br \/>\nparadox.<\/p>\n<p>I will not change who I am, for anyone.<br \/>\nNever again.<br \/>\nI will not pretend to be who I am not, for anyone.<br \/>\nNever again.<br \/>\nI will not get lost in a facet of myself, for anyone.<br \/>\nNever again.<br \/>\nI will never forget who I am, for anyone.<br \/>\nNever again.<\/p>\n<p>I am strong.<br \/>\nI am honorable.<br \/>\nI am smart.<br \/>\nI am attractive.<\/p>\n<p>Shit, Stuart Smalley ain&#8217;t got nothin&#8217; on me.<\/p>\n<p>I start this grand adventure with a smirk<br \/>\nand a hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comes too easily to me beat thumping my sternum mind grasping at grammar I have the desire to reach out to someone who doesn&#8217;t yet know me and ask for help. This is difficult. Miiiiiiiiiiiind-bending Makes me chuckle at one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1927\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,35,15],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-livejournal","tag-poetry","tag-writery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-v5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1933,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions\/1933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}