{"id":1184,"date":"1991-07-05T21:36:14","date_gmt":"1991-07-06T04:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2012-10-05T21:37:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T04:37:10","slug":"fine-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1991\/07\/05\/fine-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking along the sands<br \/>\nwhere the land meets the sea<br \/>\nI felt balanced on the fine line<br \/>\nBetween life and death.<\/p>\n<p>So easily could I have lost that balance<br \/>\nfallen to either side,<br \/>\nto the land where life is lived and tired<br \/>\nor to the sea, where I want to be.<\/p>\n<p>But should a desire to fall to the sea,<br \/>\nto leave this realm of life<br \/>\npreclude the life on the land.<\/p>\n<p>To go on living is to cling to a life<br \/>\nTo go to the sea is to relinquish the life<br \/>\nI know that I want;<br \/>\nI cannot but have.<\/p>\n<p>But to live and go on living,<br \/>\nI must have both,<br \/>\nand neither.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking along the sands<br \/> where the land meets the sea<br \/> I felt balanced on the fine line<br \/> Between life and death.<\/p>\n<p>So easily could I have lost that balance<br \/> fallen to either side,<br \/> to the land where life is lived and tired<br \/> or to the sea, where I want to be.<\/p>\n<p>But should a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical","category-nature","category-oceans","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","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=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions\/1185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}