{"id":1187,"date":"2007-06-25T07:32:03","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T12:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/writings\/2007\/06\/25\/i-met-a-genius-today\/"},"modified":"2007-06-25T07:32:03","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T12:32:03","slug":"i-met-a-genius-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2007\/06\/i-met-a-genius-today\/","title":{"rendered":"i met a genius today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met a genius today<br \/>\nunder 2 years old &amp; has a mind sponge?<br \/>\nphotographic memory?  audiographic?<br \/>\nHe could be a genius for good or evil-<br \/>\npotential untapped, unfocused, untrained.<br \/>\nYears ahead of him &amp; any<br \/>\npossible future, any<br \/>\ndirection into the wind . . .<br \/>\ngive him the right wings &amp;<br \/>\nhe could be . . .<\/p>\n<p>I met a genius today<br \/>\nlooking back at me in the mirror<br \/>\nwhat has he done for the world?<br \/>\nwhat is his potential<br \/>\nhas it been wasted on youth<br \/>\n&amp; stupidity &#8211; was he given<br \/>\nthe right wings?<br \/>\nWill he fly to the height that<br \/>\nothers have aspired . . . what potential still<br \/>\nlies within his soul?<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">wil becker<br \/>\n1996.06.18\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/us\/\" rel=\"license\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/images\/public\/somerights20.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met a genius today under 2 years old &amp; has a mind sponge? photographic memory? audiographic? He could be a genius for good or evil- potential untapped, unfocused, untrained. Years ahead of him &amp; any possible future, any direction into the wind . . . give him the right wings &amp; he could be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}