{"id":2468,"date":"2020-05-04T03:20:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T09:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:08","slug":"unmasking-deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2020\/05\/04\/unmasking-deception\/","title":{"rendered":"Unmasking deception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/viktor-juric-n82hknD59m4-unsplash-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/viktor-juric-n82hknD59m4-unsplash-cropped-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"420\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2469\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Logic sits in the corner and weeps<br \/>\nThe Brain joins it<br \/>\nwhile the Gut works the room<\/p>\n<p>everyone is bored<br \/>\n\u201cI&#8217;m not infected\u201d<br \/>\nthe Gut helps shut out reality<\/p>\n<p>Later<br \/>\nwe&#8217;ll hide from the consequences<br \/>\nLater<br \/>\nour rage will be pointed at the \u201cother\u201d<br \/>\nLater<br \/>\nthe blame falls elsewhere<br \/>\nLater<br \/>\nthe scapegoats will be plentiful<\/p>\n<p>Logic continues to sit in the corner<br \/>\nit can no longer weep<br \/>\nThe Brain is dead<br \/>\nthe Gut rules the world<\/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":[104,112,285],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-coronavirus","tag-death","tag-poetry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468","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=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3669,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions\/3669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}