{"id":521,"date":"2018-04-16T00:02:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T04:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/?p=521"},"modified":"2018-04-16T00:02:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T04:02:48","slug":"ringmaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/2018\/04\/16\/ringmaster\/","title":{"rendered":"RINGMASTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by AJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">Lights fade on the stage. Looks like the shows over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">Millions of thoughts run through his head.<br \/>\nHe awaits a response from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">His arm shackles are yanked back, pulling him from<br \/>\nhis stage of life. Never to hear if the audience<br \/>\nenjoyed the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">The only face he\u2019ll ever see are those of the demons<br \/>\nthat chain what emotions he had left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">They expect him to put on a show then leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">The ring master is forced to wear his broken smile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">However all they see is his<br \/>\nsmiling happy face.<br \/>\nA show-master ready to perform for those who are saddened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">When there are<br \/>\ntight-ropes of happiness, losing our balance could cause<br \/>\nour never-ending sadness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">We fit through our hoops of emotion. People<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">want him to conform to their sadness,<br \/>\nit\u2019ll be harder and harder as the hoop gets smaller,<br \/>\nnothing will get easy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">He asks you to do one thing:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">smile. He\u2019s lost his own, all you see is a broken mask.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">Smile for his final show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by AJ<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">Lights fade on the stage. Looks like the shows over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">Millions of thoughts run through his head.<br \/> He awaits a response from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\">His arm shackles are yanked back, pulling him from<br \/> his stage of life. Never to hear if the audience<br \/> enjoyed the show.<\/p>\n<p [...] \n\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-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","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=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}