{"id":1107,"date":"2024-08-25T15:54:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T15:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2024-08-25T15:54:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T15:54:06","slug":"road-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/2024\/08\/25\/road-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"Road-kill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem88.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-132\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem88.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem88-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/poem88-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We grow up.<br>We move on.<br>We leave behind ruined shells that used to contain us.<br>We think them sad.<br>We feel justified yet guilty about walking away.<br>We lock them up.<br>Truths, formerly\u00a0cast in stone;<br>truths, that shaped and confined us;<br>truths, that gave purpose and comfort,<br>that lead to pain and murder,<br>to greatness and gore\u2026<br>now ephemeral and poignant,<br>like dead birds on the side of the road &#8211;\u00a0<br>road-kill.<br>The world taken apart by the next generation<br>and put together in a slightly different pattern,<br>to form a new truth cast in jigsaw,\u00a0<br>to await the next player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We grow up.We move on.We leave behind ruined shells that used to contain us.We think them sad.We feel justified yet guilty about walking away.We lock them up.Truths, formerly\u00a0cast in stone;truths, that shaped and confined us;truths, that gave purpose and comfort,that lead to pain and murder,to greatness and gore\u2026now ephemeral and poignant,like dead birds on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[55,23,186,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1108,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/1108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scarletline.com\/ashepherd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}