{"id":381,"date":"2017-11-04T16:27:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T20:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/?p=381"},"modified":"2017-11-04T16:27:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T20:27:09","slug":"life-of-an-evergreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/2017\/11\/04\/life-of-an-evergreen\/","title":{"rendered":"LIFE OF AN EVERGREEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by CHRISTIAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deceit<br \/>\nPlanting false memories<br \/>\nWith roots that go<br \/>\nSix feet deep<br \/>\nTill it\u2019s permanently in your brain<br \/>\nWith tall trees preaching<br \/>\nThe word of god<br \/>\nAnd weeds holding you from going tall<br \/>\nSo it\u2019s only a matter of time<br \/>\nBefore you fall<br \/>\nI try to reach the sunlight<br \/>\nBefore the night to help myself<br \/>\nBut always get pulled back<br \/>\nInto the shadows<br \/>\nNeed water to survive<br \/>\nLast person to nurture me<br \/>\nGets fueled by anger as if<br \/>\nConsumed some type of steroid<br \/>\nHe breaks free<br \/>\nClear to grow without a weed<br \/>\nNo rope to latch back down<br \/>\nI can finally feel the sun<br \/>\nAgain beaming at me<br \/>\nHe must be happy<br \/>\nWith my freedom<br \/>\nLook a tree<br \/>\nGrowing taller than all the trees<br \/>\nI\u2019ll write a poem and call it<br \/>\nThe Life of an Evergreen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by CHRISTIAN Deceit Planting false memories With roots that go Six feet deep Till it\u2019s permanently in your brain With tall trees preaching The word of god And weeds holding you from going tall So it\u2019s only a matter of time Before you fall I try to reach the sunlight Before the night to help [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","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=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}