{"id":1272,"date":"1992-04-18T18:13:19","date_gmt":"1992-04-19T01:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2012-12-09T18:14:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T02:14:56","slug":"definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1992\/04\/18\/definition\/","title":{"rendered":"Definition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny how years just<br \/>\nmeld into an eternal circumstance of<\/p>\n<p>mind;<\/p>\n<p>I thought I left behind<br \/>\nthe circumstance of my youth,<br \/>\nyet the memory haunts me.<\/p>\n<p>Taunts me,<\/p>\n<p>No! and now only the memory<br \/>\nI find can comfort me.<br \/>\nThe memories I find define this<br \/>\neternal circumstance of mind, and<\/p>\n<p>Comfort me.<\/p>\n<p>This eternal circumstance is all I have.<br \/>\nThe years it represents,<\/p>\n<p>defines<\/p>\n<p>me. I am my own eternal circumstance;<br \/>\nI should be comfortable in that definition.<br \/>\nI never knew the present definition until it was<\/p>\n<p>past.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot know this present definition: I create<br \/>\nand define myself in the present.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot know myself in this present;<br \/>\ncannot know this mind.<br \/>\nAnd all the while all the years go on melding,<br \/>\nmelding on into the memories of this<\/p>\n<p>mind.<\/p>\n<p>So compelled I am to find, I have to know<br \/>\nthis present state of mind, this<br \/>\neternal circumstance, I have to find,<br \/>\ndefine, this eternal circumstance.<\/p>\n<p>I have to understand<\/p>\n<p>This prison of a mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny how years just<br \/> meld into an eternal circumstance of<\/p>\n<p>mind;<\/p>\n<p>I thought I left behind<br \/> the circumstance of my youth,<br \/> yet the memory haunts me.<\/p>\n<p>Taunts me,<\/p>\n<p>No! and now only the memory<br \/> I find can comfort me.<br \/> The memories I find define this<br \/> eternal circumstance of mind, and<\/p>\n<p>Comfort me.<\/p>\n<p>This [&#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-1272","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\/1272","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=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}