{"id":1286,"date":"2007-10-27T10:58:50","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T15:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/writings\/2007\/10\/27\/old-friends-familiar-faces\/"},"modified":"2007-10-27T10:58:50","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T15:58:50","slug":"old-friends-familiar-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2007\/10\/old-friends-familiar-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Friends &#038; Familiar Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old friends &amp;<br \/>\nfamiliar faces.<br \/>\nWe see so<br \/>\nmany races;<br \/>\nEveryday there&#8217;s<br \/>\nsomeone new added to our memories.<\/p>\n<p>Look back into the past-<br \/>\nwe see images of yesterday;<br \/>\nThe faces of today have<br \/>\nchanged<br \/>\nolder, wiser, more paranoid &amp; shallow.<\/p>\n<p>We meet old friends that<br \/>\nhave been lost before;<br \/>\nIn the most unusual places<br \/>\nour mind could ever select.<\/p>\n<p>I see them as I<br \/>\nlook around &#8211;<br \/>\nmy friends of yesteryear;<br \/>\nSeeing how we&#8217;ve changed,<br \/>\nseeing how we&#8217;ve died<br \/>\ninside.<\/p>\n<p>Reminiscing?<br \/>\nWhy what for &#8211;<br \/>\nit&#8217;s time to face<br \/>\nthe time.<br \/>\nTime musically flows<br \/>\nalong &#8211;<br \/>\nthe stream that never ends.<\/p>\n<p>We still meet<br \/>\nthe faces &#8211;<br \/>\nthat left scars in the<br \/>\npast.<br \/>\nFaces that change &amp;<br \/>\nyet, are so familiar.<\/p>\n<p>Holding keys to<br \/>\nthe life of others;<br \/>\nwe shape<br \/>\nand change that which is around us.<\/p>\n<p>Old friends &amp;<br \/>\nfamiliar faces;<br \/>\nTorn blue jeans &amp;<br \/>\nfat shoe laces.<br \/>\nChanges from yesterday &#8211;<br \/>\npainted on our minds;<br \/>\nDoes death bring<br \/>\nthe end of life . . . ? . . .<\/p>\n<p>Or just a new Remembering ? ? ?<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Dedicated to those I&#8217;ve lost touch with.<br \/>\nwil becker<br \/>\n1995.01.20\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>Old friends &amp; familiar faces. We see so many races; Everyday there&#8217;s someone new added to our memories. Look back into the past- we see images of yesterday; The faces of today have changed older, wiser, more paranoid &amp; shallow. We meet old friends that have been lost before; In the most unusual places our [&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-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","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=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}