{"id":164,"date":"2015-12-02T15:01:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T20:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/?p=164"},"modified":"2015-12-02T15:05:19","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T20:05:19","slug":"the-illusion-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/2015\/12\/02\/the-illusion-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"the illusion of love"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>a poem by [rickie]<\/h6>\n<p>Drag my hand, as I lean into your warmth,<br \/>\nMy tears slip past, for I know this is just an illusion.<br \/>\nI fight up a smile so they won\u2019t worry.<br \/>\nWhat I wouldn\u2019t give to just sit beside you without fear.<br \/>\nThe warm, salt-filled tears cascade down my cheeks<br \/>\nFor my illusion has been broken,<br \/>\nLeaving me in the bitter dark.<br \/>\nI curl into a ball of lies,<br \/>\nDespair and agony.<br \/>\nWithout you, I feel lost.<br \/>\nWithout you, my heart breaks with every step.<br \/>\nWithout you, I\u2019m vacant of love<br \/>\nOr more so\u2014<br \/>\nThe illusion of love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a poem by [rickie] <\/p>\n<p>Drag my hand, as I lean into your warmth,<br \/> My tears slip past, for I know this is just an illusion.<br \/> I fight up a smile so they won\u2019t worry.<br \/> What I wouldn\u2019t give to just sit beside you without fear.<br \/> The warm, salt-filled tears cascade down [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[307985],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-rickie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}