{"id":1948,"date":"2001-12-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-12-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2020-07-24T23:26:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T03:26:02","slug":"poem-changing-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1948","title":{"rendered":"[Poem] Changing Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would it change us, for me to let her know?<br \/>\nWould it end this depression, this hurt and loathing<br \/>\nthat I have inflicted on myself of late?<\/p>\n<p>Would it drive her away, make her so nervous and<br \/>\nuncomfortable that she&#8217;d never want to see me again?<br \/>\nWould I lose her forever?<\/p>\n<p>I doubt that there&#8217;s even a question.<br \/>\nIt always pushes itself out of me.<br \/>\nIt always demands to be known.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m leaving her for a better job.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m leaving everyone that I know.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m leaving her.<\/p>\n<p>This makes me nauseous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would it change us, for me to let her know? Would it end this depression, this hurt and loathing that I have inflicted on myself of late? Would it drive her away, make her so nervous and uncomfortable that she&#8217;d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1948\">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-1948","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-vq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","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=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1953,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}