{"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 ERIC A cultivated mind Is ushered onto the wrong path and the steps backwards are fading As the sand gets wet by the tears The dirt is stained Into the cracked pavement Adolescents trip as they tries to chase it Nonstop into traffic As automobiles only graze them The headlights lay on the horizon [&hellip;]<\/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}]}}