{"id":622,"date":"2022-10-02T12:51:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T19:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=622"},"modified":"2024-01-28T17:38:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T01:38:08","slug":"cynicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Cynicism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>False Reason\u00a0leaps at Beauty&#8217;s throat.<br \/>\nThe grinning beast you thought was your only hope<br \/>\nlives only to kill.<br \/>\nWhat wisdom leads only to death?<\/p>\n<p>Death is unwise.<br \/>\nYou wring yourself dry<br \/>\nwhile growing grass<br \/>\nsplits mountains.<\/p>\n<p>If truth is despair,<br \/>\nwhat is truth?<br \/>\nElsewhere.<br \/>\nConsider: an open eye<br \/>\nlooks up as well as down.<br \/>\nWhat is closed in us?<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Probably around 1972<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>False Reason\u00a0leaps at Beauty&#8217;s throat. The grinning beast you thought was your only hope lives only to kill. What wisdom leads only to death? Death is unwise. You wring yourself dry while growing grass splits mountains. If truth is despair, what is truth? Elsewhere. Consider: an open eye looks up<a href=\"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=622\" class=\"read-more\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1968-1973","category-poetry"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}