{"id":1436,"date":"2000-08-21T19:23:21","date_gmt":"2000-08-22T02:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2013-01-19T19:26:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T03:26:01","slug":"key-to-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/2000\/08\/21\/key-to-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Key to Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was the key to everything<br \/>\nan integral part of the contemporaneous<br \/>\nThat first cold eye and me<br \/>\nwaiting fiercely and abruptly rising<br \/>\nto arrogance,<br \/>\nDefying that which would entail a wise decision.<\/p>\n<p>I was the key to everything;<br \/>\nand no lock I ever found would be turned<br \/>\nA first dark night along with this body<br \/>\nflesh desperate to labor onward<br \/>\ntowards enrichment;<br \/>\nIn deference to all decisions made.<\/p>\n<p>I thought the key to everything<br \/>\nwas whatever I had once laid to rest;<br \/>\nBut in laying down I chased away<br \/>\nthe peace that sky and breezes bring<br \/>\nwith the unrest of an inharmonious mind<br \/>\nIn denial of all decisions made.<\/p>\n<p>I locked away most everything<br \/>\nthat once I&#8217;d thought meant so little to me,<br \/>\nin a deep recess of a life and mind<br \/>\ntowards which I&#8217;d never turn or look<br \/>\nfor arrogance,<br \/>\nThe decisions had been irreversible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was the key to everything<br \/> an integral part of the contemporaneous<br \/> That first cold eye and me<br \/> waiting fiercely and abruptly rising<br \/> to arrogance,<br \/> Defying that which would entail a wise decision.<\/p>\n<p>I was the key to everything;<br \/> and no lock I ever found would be turned<br \/> A first dark night along [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-kisner-collection","category-poems","category-songs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","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=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}