{"id":690,"date":"2012-04-25T16:29:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T20:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=690"},"modified":"2012-04-25T16:33:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T20:33:10","slug":"what-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2012\/04\/25\/what-if\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT IF?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/benji\/\">BENJI<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>What if the skies were white, and the clouds were blue?<br \/>\nWhat if you could relive every moment, just like it were new?<br \/>\nWhat if no one ever hated, and everyone was loved?<br \/>\nWhat if you could fly, and touch the heavens above.<\/p>\n<p>What if you had the remote to your life.<br \/>\nRewind to a baby, or fast-forward to a wife.<br \/>\nWhat if everyone was honest, and no one ever lied.<br \/>\nWhat we could see all our lost veterans. What if soldiers never died.<\/p>\n<p>What if the one that you loved never hurt you.<br \/>\nWhat if every promise they made actually went through.<br \/>\nWhat if guys looked at you for you,Instead of looking at your clothes,<br \/>\nOnly seeing through.<\/p>\n<p>What if people weren\u2019t ignorant, and we all knew,<br \/>\nThat your education is more important than buying your new shoes.<br \/>\nWhat if violence is stupid, and really isn\u2019t the answer.<br \/>\nWhat if Hitler was Marley, and never built a Panzer.<\/p>\n<p>What if you could win a war with a poem.<br \/>\nHero\u2019s battling with stanzas, I wish I could know \u2018em.<br \/>\nWhat if this poem never ended, it just became a work in progress.<br \/>\nI can think about that later, but now I must regress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/tag\/benji\/\">BENJI<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>What if the skies were white, and the clouds were blue?<br \/> What if you could relive every moment, just like it were new?<br \/> What if no one ever hated, and everyone was loved?<br \/> What if you could fly, and touch the heavens above.<\/p>\n<p>What if you had the remote [&#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":[79516],"coauthors":[79475],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-benji"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","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=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}