{"id":1067,"date":"1989-01-09T14:33:08","date_gmt":"1989-01-09T22:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2012-09-29T14:34:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T21:34:25","slug":"thorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1989\/01\/09\/thorn\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some time I&#8217;d thought about the most<br \/>\nIndefatigable of personalities,<br \/>\nBut had not come to any terms with<br \/>\nAnything in any contemplation of the same. <\/p>\n<p>I thought, perhaps, I&#8217;d change my name.<br \/>\nWould that have made the day a little brighter?<br \/>\nWould my heart have been made a little lighter?<\/p>\n<p>No, I left my name the same,<br \/>\n&#8216;Twouldn&#8217;t make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>They say a rose is still a rose by any other name,<br \/>\nBut no-one mentioned anything about the thorns.<br \/>\nA thorn is a thorn is a thorn,<br \/>\nA sharp pointed outgrowth that lurks beneath the rose<br \/>\n(I think it&#8217;s found away into my side).<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s still a thorn, by any other name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some time I&#8217;d thought about the most<br \/> Indefatigable of personalities,<br \/> But had not come to any terms with<br \/> Anything in any contemplation of the same. <\/p>\n<p>I thought, perhaps, I&#8217;d change my name.<br \/> Would that have made the day a little brighter?<br \/> Would my heart have been made a little lighter?<\/p>\n<p>No, I left [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","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=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1068,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}