{"id":2782,"date":"2021-04-21T05:40:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T11:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=2782"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:07","slug":"double-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2021\/04\/21\/double-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Double life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/camila-quintero-franco-mC852jACK1g-unsplash-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/camila-quintero-franco-mC852jACK1g-unsplash-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2783\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You only know<br \/>\nwhat I choose to tell you<br \/>\nyou do not see the madness inside<br \/>\nyou do not hear the silent screams<br \/>\nof past terrors<\/p>\n<p>You only know<br \/>\nwhat I choose to share<br \/>\nyour eyes cannot see<br \/>\nthe pain inside<br \/>\nof the burden I am forced to carry<\/p>\n<p>You only know<br \/>\nwhat I choose to reveal<br \/>\nto experience it all<br \/>\ncrushes the soul<br \/>\nthat must walk alone<\/p>\n<p>You only know<br \/>\nwhat you see<br \/>\nmy tears are invisible<br \/>\nthe battles unseeable<br \/>\nconcealed behind closed doors<\/p>\n<p>You will never know<br \/>\nthe horror and fear of mental torture<br \/>\nof the living nightmare<br \/>\nthat must be tempered<br \/>\nto survive another day<\/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":[238,285,294,377],"class_list":["post-2782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-mental-health","tag-poetry","tag-ptsd","tag-trauma"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782","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=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3619,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions\/3619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}