{"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 Lights fade on the stage. Looks like the shows over. Millions of thoughts run through his head. He awaits a response from the crowd. His arm shackles are yanked back, pulling him from his stage of life. Never to hear if the audience enjoyed the show. The only face he\u2019ll ever see are [&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-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}]}}