{"id":1944,"date":"2001-11-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2020-07-24T23:20:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T03:20:52","slug":"poem-laughing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1944","title":{"rendered":"[Poem] Laughing Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a poet, she said<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t say pretty things, like that, she said.<br \/>\nI smiled at her, because she just had.<\/p>\n<p>My inside-city is beautiful in its moonlight<br \/>\nAnd towers majestically in the noon sun<br \/>\nI wander its maze wearing a grin.<\/p>\n<p>I am a large man, in shape and presence<br \/>\nI am a good man, in emotion and deed<br \/>\nI am a man, and knowing this grounds me.<\/p>\n<p>My war hammer taps my leg as I walk<br \/>\nAching to be used, now that it&#8217;s out.<br \/>\nI pat it fondly, my rage and anger.<\/p>\n<p>I have found patience, in my heart.<br \/>\nI have found solace, in my city.<br \/>\nI have found myself, within myself.<\/p>\n<p>My wings flex and stretch, yearning for flight<br \/>\nAchievement has always made me feel good<br \/>\nI fall off the cliff, laughing like a madman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a poet, she said I can&#8217;t say pretty things, like that, she said. I smiled at her, because she just had. My inside-city is beautiful in its moonlight And towers majestically in the noon sun I wander its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1944\">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-1944","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-vm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944","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=1944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}