{"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 BENJI What if the skies were white, and the clouds were blue? What if you could relive every moment, just like it were new? What if no one ever hated, and everyone was loved? What if you could fly, and touch the heavens above. What if you had the remote to your life. Rewind [&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":[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}]}}