{"id":394,"date":"2012-03-09T19:10:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T00:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=394"},"modified":"2012-03-12T16:05:47","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T20:05:47","slug":"gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2012\/03\/09\/gray\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/daezy\/\">DAEZY<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Does the world have a voice of it&#8217;s own?<br \/>\nOr do we create it?<br \/>\nDo we demand control over something far more powerful?<br \/>\nOr do we just sedate it?<br \/>\nThe questions of a human being are always involving the word &#8220;solve.&#8221;<br \/>\nWe thirst for something bigger, stronger,<br \/>\nAs time moves on, and we evolve.<br \/>\nSo for those who see in black and white,<br \/>\nI am your perfect shade of gray.<br \/>\nBecause I am not the belle of the ball,<br \/>\nThe trendsetter,<br \/>\nOr the smart one.<br \/>\nI am just your normal teen<br \/>\nWith a new idea<br \/>\nTo bring to the scene.<br \/>\nI will announce it to the world.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m just a normal girl,<br \/>\nBut I am on a quest for difference!<br \/>\nI am not afraid of change!<br \/>\nSo for those trapped in a world of black and white,<br \/>\nDARE to be a shade of gray!&#8221;<br \/>\nThe world is ever-changing now,<br \/>\nBut we can change it for the better!<br \/>\nWe just have to open our hearts and minds to a new idea.<br \/>\nBe different, or rather be courageous!<br \/>\nI see the world in black, white, and gray.<br \/>\nBecause for every dark storm cloud, a white cloud.<br \/>\nFor every hurricane, a rainbow.<br \/>\nFor every hungry child, a well-fed one.<br \/>\nFor every depressed teen, an anti-depressant.<br \/>\nThe world has numerous good and bad colors.<br \/>\nBut gray divides them.<br \/>\nGray is neutral.<br \/>\nSo am I.<br \/>\nSo why not be prepared for gray?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/daezy\/\">DAEZY<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Does the world have a voice of it&#8217;s own?<br \/> Or do we create it?<br \/> Do we demand control over something far more powerful?<br \/> Or do we just sedate it?<br \/> The questions of a human being are always involving the word &#8220;solve.&#8221;<br \/> We thirst for something bigger, stronger,<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":[79481],"coauthors":[79475],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-daezy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","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=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}