{"id":516,"date":"2012-03-26T12:59:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T16:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=516"},"modified":"2012-03-26T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T17:00:11","slug":"bright-adolescent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2012\/03\/26\/bright-adolescent\/","title":{"rendered":"BRIGHT ADOLESCENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/isiah\/\">ISIAH<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<p>To the bright adolescent, the expectations rise<br \/>\nfor he shows his true self when he holds back no lies.<br \/>\nHe\u2019s looking for affection and acceptance of those close to him,<br \/>\nand only gets complaints due to successes before.<br \/>\nHis heart is torn from the bruises and sores,<br \/>\nbut everyone thinks he\u2019s fine because<br \/>\nhe has a key to open any door, but he can\u2019t open up any door,<br \/>\neven though he\u2019s a problem-solver, he can\u2019t decode his own mystery,<br \/>\nwhen he thinks he has the answer, it still goes on like infinity.<br \/>\nSure, every human can function with just basic needs \u2013<br \/>\ndrink, eat, sleep, is that all I need?<br \/>\nBut he needs something more,<br \/>\nsomething to cry for, something to ball up in your fist<br \/>\nand die for, something that makes us lust for more.<br \/>\nWhen everyone is telling you what you should do,<br \/>\nyou forget your own options. He wonders<br \/>\nif it\u2019s possible to handle all the stress this is causing.<br \/>\nHis vision is blurry.<br \/>\nHe has no glasses just so he can see clearly<br \/>\nbetween what he loves and what he holds dearly,<br \/>\nso his eyes start to water and he feels so sad,<br \/>\nthinking it\u2019s pathetic to even think like that.<br \/>\nSo he tries a new strategy,<br \/>\ninstead of going fast, he decides to go steady,<br \/>\nnot worrying about the future, just about what he has already,<br \/>\nand it ends up fine because everything\u2019s working for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by ISIAH To the bright adolescent, the expectations rise for he shows his true self when he holds back no lies. He\u2019s looking for affection and acceptance of those close to him, and only gets complaints due to successes before. His heart is torn from the bruises and sores, but everyone thinks he\u2019s fine because [&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":[79494],"coauthors":[79475],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-isiah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","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=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}