{"id":1020,"date":"1988-10-14T00:22:09","date_gmt":"1988-10-14T07:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2012-09-02T00:23:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T07:23:19","slug":"running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1988\/10\/14\/running\/","title":{"rendered":"Running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had run this far,<br \/>\nHad panted and puffed.<br \/>\nI had breathed heavily,<br \/>\nBut hasten the breath further.<br \/>\nThe legs move on, the arms swing and swing.<br \/>\nI had run this far, further now.<br \/>\nStill running, running forward<br \/>\nThrough time.<br \/>\nOccasionally glancing back down the road,<br \/>\nNever looking far enough back to see<br \/>\nWhere I&#8217;ve been,<br \/>\nAnd rarely seeing the meaning of where I&#8217;ve been.<br \/>\nStill running, running forward,<br \/>\nBut looking down.<br \/>\nAlways almost exhausted, always running,<br \/>\nEven when resting, the feet still run.<br \/>\nThe head too tired<br \/>\nTo look up ahead, to tired to lift<br \/>\nAnd plan for that fork ahead.<br \/>\nThe head held listlessly downward,<br \/>\nLooking at the next step, and the next step,<br \/>\nBut never the next mile.<br \/>\nI run, and run and run,<br \/>\nBut am not sure how far I&#8217;ve come.<br \/>\nNot sure of how far I&#8217;ll go.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m never sure my next step will hit the ground,<br \/>\nBut still I run on and continue along<br \/>\nThe miles of this life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had run this far,<br \/> Had panted and puffed.<br \/> I had breathed heavily,<br \/> But hasten the breath further.<br \/> The legs move on, the arms swing and swing.<br \/> I had run this far, further now.<br \/> Still running, running forward<br \/> Through time.<br \/> Occasionally glancing back down the road,<br \/> Never looking far enough back [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}