{"id":132,"date":"1985-09-09T22:56:17","date_gmt":"1985-09-10T05:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:12:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:12:50","slug":"testament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1985\/09\/09\/testament\/","title":{"rendered":"Testament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my testament to all<br \/>\nI am appalled<br \/>\nBy ingratiates, conniving<br \/>\nAs yourselves.<br \/>\nI oft times wonder<br \/>\nWhat drives a man to plunder<br \/>\nWhat is far less<br \/>\nThan Life itself.<\/p>\n<p>In my denunciating screams<br \/>\nI do deem<br \/>\nA new Light in<br \/>\nConscious wisdom to be true.<br \/>\nI loathe to feel the<br \/>\nAnger which<br \/>\nAfflicts the very center<br \/>\nOf too many a man&#8217;s<br \/>\nUnconscious being.<\/p>\n<p>In my panegyric squalls<br \/>\nI am appalled<br \/>\nBy such denounced wisdom<br \/>\nAs you dare:<br \/>\nIt may drive a man<br \/>\nTo wretchedness,<br \/>\nTo watch himself<br \/>\nForget the test<br \/>\nWhich he should want to<br \/>\nPass &#8211; and that is<br \/>\nLife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my testament to all<br \/> I am appalled<br \/> By ingratiates, conniving<br \/> As yourselves.<br \/> I oft times wonder<br \/> What drives a man to plunder<br \/> What is far less<br \/> Than Life itself.<\/p>\n<p>In my denunciating screams<br \/> I do deem<br \/> A new Light in<br \/> Conscious wisdom to be true.<br \/> I loathe to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","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=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}