{"id":1564,"date":"2018-10-13T09:33:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T15:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:13","slug":"broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2018\/10\/13\/broken\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/animal-avian-bird-145378-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/animal-avian-bird-145378-cropped-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"419\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1565\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Broken<\/p>\n<p>My past is not smooth<br \/>\nit is filled with<br \/>\nrough patches<br \/>\nrocky passages<br \/>\nbroken bushes<br \/>\nand fractured trees<\/p>\n<p>Thorns stick out along the channels of my path<br \/>\nprotruding more than they should<br \/>\nscratching me with wounds to my soul<br \/>\nas I traipse past the mangled memories in my mind<\/p>\n<p>My brain is scarred with the battles of life<br \/>\na casualty in a war I did not want to be in<\/p>\n<p>There are those who want to embrace the scars<br \/>\nthey don&#8217;t see the damage<br \/>\nthey don&#8217;t see the lacerations of trauma<br \/>\nthey don&#8217;t see the broken life<\/p>\n<p>They see beauty<br \/>\nthey see an otherwise hidden authenticity<br \/>\nthey see a wisdom somewhere below<br \/>\nthey see the knowledge and veracity that comes from a broken life<br \/>\nand I need to let them in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[219,238,285],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-life","tag-mental-health","tag-poetry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3812,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions\/3812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}