{"id":1485,"date":"2001-06-03T05:30:42","date_gmt":"2001-06-03T12:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2013-02-02T00:18:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T08:18:02","slug":"a-eulogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/2001\/06\/03\/a-eulogy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Eulogy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Art was not expression but a way of life<br \/>\nThat never gave you freedom then to thrive<br \/>\nBut the zeal of your approach to infamy<br \/>\nAssures your light will never fade away.<\/p>\n<p>Words cannot change the throngs of sanity<br \/>\nThrough life&#8217;s actions, through your sin and me<br \/>\nAs a fan I miss the moments when, scorched in your holy flame<br \/>\nI&#8217;d been touched in life to inspire and give again.<\/p>\n<p>All the dreams are gone, there is no way to hell.<br \/>\nDid your parents drive you there? I thank them well&#8230;<br \/>\nFor from where you were untold amounts you&#8217;d given.<br \/>\nTo surreptitious glory you&#8217;d been driven.<\/p>\n<p>Roger was a friend I never eulogized,<br \/>\nBut Rozz lived Roger&#8217;s eulogy before his time.<br \/>\nApril 1st shall never pass<br \/>\nWithout\u00a0remembrance\u00a0on my part<br \/>\nOf the life that was his art.<\/p>\n<p>The twisted\u00a0focused\u00a0soul, my friend,<br \/>\nWhose final\u00a0artistic\u00a0statement was his end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art was not expression but a way of life<br \/> That never gave you freedom then to thrive<br \/> But the zeal of your approach to infamy<br \/> Assures your light will never fade away.<\/p>\n<p>Words cannot change the throngs of sanity<br \/> Through life&#8217;s actions, through your sin and me<br \/> As a fan I miss the moments when, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-metaphysical","category-personal","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","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=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}