{"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<\/p>\n<p>Deceit<br \/> Planting false memories<br \/> With roots that go<br \/> Six feet deep<br \/> Till it\u2019s permanently in your brain<br \/> With tall trees preaching<br \/> The word of god<br \/> And weeds holding you from going tall<br \/> So it\u2019s only a matter of time<br \/> Before you fall<br \/> I [&#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-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}]}}