{"id":244,"date":"2016-12-07T17:02:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T22:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/?p=244"},"modified":"2016-12-07T17:02:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T22:02:02","slug":"a-story-about-doubt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/2016\/12\/07\/a-story-about-doubt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A STORY ABOUT DOUBT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by BRION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>An Abecedarian Poem<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Buying time to cry alone<br \/>\nconsumed by my lack of confidence.<br \/>\nDenying that I could ever be wrong.<br \/>\nEveryday running closer than farther to my resolve.<br \/>\nForgetting the hope I once had.<br \/>\nGod, why have I forgotten my name.<br \/>\nHallelujah, I\u2019m pressure to shock through my obstacles.<br \/>\nIsolated from the world around me.<br \/>\nJokingly you make me feel so weak.<br \/>\nKilling me slowly like poison.<br \/>\nLiving up to your expectations must be something I can\u2019t do.<br \/>\nMy forgiving mother, my unaccepting father<br \/>\nnever took it into account that I was trying,<br \/>\nopenly humiliating me, cursing my name and the like.<br \/>\nPersonally picking on my non-particular possessions<br \/>\nquite like the many posters I hang in my room:<br \/>\nRed, Blue, Pink, Yellow, all symbolizing emotion.<br \/>\nStill I fight as much as I can<br \/>\nto persuade you I\u2019m still someone worth your favor.<br \/>\nUnlike other people, I\u2019ve gotten stronger for you and you alone.<br \/>\nVictory will be bestowed upon those with my determination.<br \/>\nWonder how I will win?<br \/>\nXavier can tell you himself.<br \/>\nYou just need to stay awake and not turn into a<br \/>\nzombie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by BRION<\/p>\n<p>An Abecedarian Poem<\/p>\n<p>Buying time to cry alone<br \/> consumed by my lack of confidence.<br \/> Denying that I could ever be wrong.<br \/> Everyday running closer than farther to my resolve.<br \/> Forgetting the hope I once had.<br \/> God, why have I forgotten my name.<br \/> Hallelujah, I\u2019m pressure to shock [&#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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}