{"id":503,"date":"2012-03-26T12:18:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T16:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=503"},"modified":"2012-03-26T12:19:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T16:19:28","slug":"split-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2012\/03\/26\/split-second\/","title":{"rendered":"SPLIT SECOND"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/eric\/\">ERIC<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>A cultivated mind<br \/>\nIs ushered onto the wrong path and the steps backwards are fading<br \/>\nAs the sand gets wet by the tears<br \/>\nThe dirt is stained<br \/>\nInto the cracked pavement<br \/>\nAdolescents trip as they tries to chase it<br \/>\nNonstop into traffic<br \/>\nAs automobiles only graze them<br \/>\nThe headlights lay on the horizon of there thoughts<br \/>\nBut if the perspective for this time being was changing<br \/>\nto behind the front license plating<br \/>\nThe thoughts of the driver as the direction of the car swerves, swaying<br \/>\nSpeeding past the image of child<br \/>\nBecause of the bad day and lost of patience<br \/>\nBeing laid off from income<br \/>\nLeft the driver with clenched teeth<br \/>\nAnd now laid into hospital bed just waiting<br \/>\nFor the medication to settle the pain<br \/>\nFrom hitting a tree<br \/>\nLoss of money and concentration<br \/>\nIs a small price to pay for the ability to not have to grieve<br \/>\nA split second is the difference between head-on injury<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/eric\/\">ERIC<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>A cultivated mind<br \/> Is ushered onto the wrong path and the steps backwards are fading<br \/> As the sand gets wet by the tears<br \/> The dirt is stained<br \/> Into the cracked pavement<br \/> Adolescents trip as they tries to chase it<br \/> Nonstop into traffic<br \/> As automobiles only [&#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":[79480],"coauthors":[79475],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-eric"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","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=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}