{"id":396,"date":"2012-03-09T19:14:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T00:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=396"},"modified":"2012-03-12T16:10:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T20:10:45","slug":"the-edge-of-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2012\/03\/09\/the-edge-of-my-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"THE EDGE OF MY MIND"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/alyssa\/\">ALYSSA<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>I&#8217;m sitting again,<br \/>\non the edge of a cold brick wall,<br \/>\nsomewhere between the ruins of my once peaceful mind,<br \/>\nand the intellectual bounties of a world outside.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m between two not-so-different places<br \/>\nexchanging glances<br \/>\nwith scornful faces.<br \/>\nYou see,<br \/>\nin the world that is my mind,<br \/>\na world that never sleeps,<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s never peace.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no war,<br \/>\nbut it seems the fighting may never cease.<br \/>\nSo from the edge of this cold brick wall,<br \/>\nI rise, ready to build my mind with bounties from each of it&#8217;s sides.<br \/>\nThis wall has begun to warm from light shining on both sides,<br \/>\nwelcoming greetings, from a newer, stranger world<br \/>\nof reality,<br \/>\nglad to see me face it.<br \/>\nAs for the fighting between me, conscience, and I,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m ready to end it.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s time to obliterate this wall<br \/>\nso that I may expand a piece OF my mind,<br \/>\nto regain peace IN my mind,<br \/>\nand share it<br \/>\nwith the world<br \/>\noutside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/alyssa\/\">ALYSSA<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sitting again,<br \/> on the edge of a cold brick wall,<br \/> somewhere between the ruins of my once peaceful mind,<br \/> and the intellectual bounties of a world outside.<br \/> I&#8217;m between two not-so-different places<br \/> exchanging glances<br \/> with scornful faces.<br \/> You see,<br \/> in the world that [&#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":[79499],"coauthors":[79475],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-alyssa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","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=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}