{"id":1284,"date":"2007-10-25T11:20:05","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T16:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/writings\/2007\/10\/25\/another-dance\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T11:20:05","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T16:20:05","slug":"another-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2007\/10\/another-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER DANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>sitting after hours,<br \/>\nstreet lights glowing incandescently &#8211;<br \/>\nsifting through tinted &amp; colored windows;<br \/>\nplants blocking some,<br \/>\ncasting shadows of trickery &#8211;<br \/>\nillusions, illusions, illusions,<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\ndance to &amp; fro in flickering candle light.<\/p>\n<p>stale smoke taints the air,<br \/>\nand softly music drifts up from the dance floor &#8211;<br \/>\nticking of my watches beats a rhythm into my mind;<br \/>\nthe wheels are turning,<br \/>\nthoughts streaming through emptiness &#8211;<br \/>\ndecisions, decisions, decisions,<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nmind made up.<\/p>\n<p>must face responsibilities,<br \/>\nmust stand &amp; &#8220;face the music&#8221; &#8211;<br \/>\nbefore, i would have sought easy outs;<br \/>\ni&#8217;m learning to &#8220;dance,&#8221;<br \/>\ni still trip &amp; stumble &#8211;<br \/>\nsuicide, suicide, suicide,<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nisn&#8217;t the answer. . .<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">wil becker<br \/>\n1995.11.11\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>sitting after hours, street lights glowing incandescently &#8211; sifting through tinted &amp; colored windows; plants blocking some, casting shadows of trickery &#8211; illusions, illusions, illusions, . . . dance to &amp; fro in flickering candle light. stale smoke taints the air, and softly music drifts up from the dance floor &#8211; ticking of my watches [&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-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","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=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}