{"id":313,"date":"2016-11-25T16:26:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T21:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/?p=313"},"modified":"2016-11-25T16:26:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T21:26:31","slug":"realism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/2016\/11\/25\/realism\/","title":{"rendered":"realism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>a poem by [mitchell]<\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Love is my battleground, and sometimes I don\u2019t win. But that\u2019s not the point I\u2019m trying to make. Love is where I thrive so I shall keep my love to myself because nobody wants to hold and keep it. I thrive there best not only because I\u2019m a poet, but also because I\u2019m real to whomever I date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But if I change, it\u2019s not you, it\u2019s me, or I never loved you to begin with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It ain\u2019t good; it ain\u2019t bad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It ain\u2019t all hood, so don\u2019t get mad. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m real, so don\u2019t tell me I\u2019m fake. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m a true realist. I\u2019m going to tell you how it is. I just think you falling in love with somebody like me just can\u2019t happen because I can\u2019t love you back. In no way shape or form. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a poem by [mitchell] <\/p>\n<p>Love is my battleground, and sometimes I don\u2019t win. But that\u2019s not the point I\u2019m trying to make. Love is where I thrive so I shall keep my love to myself because nobody wants to hold and keep it. I thrive there best not only because I\u2019m a poet, but also [&#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":[308045],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mitchell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","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=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ripple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}