{"id":1766,"date":"2018-12-14T17:42:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T00:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:12","slug":"lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2018\/12\/14\/lincoln\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/adult-alone-backlit-268833-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/adult-alone-backlit-268833-cropped-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"420\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1767\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I sit on my balcony<br \/>\nin the pouring rain<br \/>\nwater drenches me<br \/>\nin the stillness of the night<br \/>\nI watch the cars on 56th Street<br \/>\npass me by<br \/>\nOn this starless night<br \/>\nthe sky is filled with blackness<br \/>\nlike the pitch of a dark, dungeon cell<br \/>\nThe chains on my mind<br \/>\ntoo heavy<br \/>\nprevent speech or thought<br \/>\nonly more chains<br \/>\nto hold me down<\/p>\n<p><em>5 September 1993<\/em><\/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":[254,284,285,303],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-nebraska","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-rain"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","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=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3781,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions\/3781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}