{"id":2018,"date":"2015-02-03T11:52:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T16:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2015-02-03T11:54:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T16:54:11","slug":"old-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2015\/02\/03\/old-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"OLD FRIEND"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/paula\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">PAULA<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n<p>Dropped everything<br \/>\nfor you<br \/>\nonce again. Just like<br \/>\nyou never left.<\/p>\n<p>Big brown eyes, strong arms,<br \/>\nconsuming me in a way<br \/>\nmuch less than what I\u2019m used to.<br \/>\nBreath stopped, hitched, caught.<\/p>\n<p>Caught up in the way you<br \/>\nlooked at me, in a way much<br \/>\ndifferent than what I\u2019m used to.<br \/>\nSwear I thought I\u2019d never<br \/>\nsee you again, but here I am.<\/p>\n<p>5 years gone, and I miss<br \/>\nmy best friend, miss having<br \/>\nlong talks all night.<\/p>\n<p>Miss you holding me when I<br \/>\ndrop tears like bombs, like time-<br \/>\nbombs sensitive to the advancement<br \/>\nof my life, unattached to you.<\/p>\n<p>you tossed me like a grenade<br \/>\nand swallowed the key<br \/>\nlike I had to swallow my dreams<br \/>\nof us.<\/p>\n<p>Because people grow up,<br \/>\ngrow apart, grow used to<br \/>\nseparate lives.<\/p>\n<p>And now I\u2019m alone grinning<br \/>\nand bearing it, alone without you,<br \/>\nin a way much less than<br \/>\nwhat I\u2019m used to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/paula\/\">PAULA<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Dropped everything<br \/> for you<br \/> once again. Just like<br \/> you never left.<\/p>\n<p>Big brown eyes, strong arms,<br \/> consuming me in a way<br \/> much less than what I\u2019m used to.<br \/> Breath stopped, hitched, caught.<\/p>\n<p>Caught up in the way you<br \/> looked at me, in a way much<br [...]\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[315],"tags":[79493],"coauthors":[79475],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-paula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}