{"id":361,"date":"2012-03-09T18:01:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T23:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=361"},"modified":"2012-03-25T21:57:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T01:57:00","slug":"let-it-be-known","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2012\/03\/09\/let-it-be-known\/","title":{"rendered":"LET IT BE KNOWN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/paula\/\">PAULA<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Let it be known<br \/>\nWhere I come from,<br \/>\nWho I am.<br \/>\nLet the rain fall<br \/>\nSlowly on my head.<br \/>\nLet my dreams begin.<br \/>\nPretend these words are nothing<br \/>\nBut a mentor,<br \/>\nA foreshadowing to the game.<br \/>\nClose your eyes.<br \/>\nTonight\u2019s all we\u2019re given,<br \/>\nLet\u2019s hope it\u2019s never the same.<br \/>\nChoices determine our voices.<br \/>\nOur answers determine our prayers.<br \/>\nI wonder, has anyone ever told you<br \/>\nLife\u2019s not completely fair?<br \/>\nThe sleepless nights,<br \/>\nThe petty fights,<br \/>\nThe lies,<br \/>\nThe tries&#8230;<br \/>\nThey all\u2026<br \/>\nThey all slap us on the cheek. They bring us to our knees<br \/>\nAnd watch us through the fall.<br \/>\nIt feels as if I\u2019m stuck in the middle<br \/>\nAnd I don\u2019t know which side to chase.<br \/>\nMy question is-<br \/>\nWhy should I be made to choose a side in the first place?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/paula\/\">PAULA<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Let it be known<br \/> Where I come from,<br \/> Who I am.<br \/> Let the rain fall<br \/> Slowly on my head.<br \/> Let my dreams begin.<br \/> Pretend these words are nothing<br \/> But a mentor,<br \/> A foreshadowing to the game.<br \/> Close your eyes.<br \/> Tonight\u2019s all we\u2019re [&#8230;]<\/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-361","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\/361","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=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}