{"id":1518,"date":"2001-12-23T01:15:15","date_gmt":"2001-12-23T09:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2013-02-02T01:18:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T09:18:43","slug":"worn-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/2001\/12\/23\/worn-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Worn Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to paint a rosy picture<br \/>\nwith words and actions<br \/>\nthat don&#8217;t represent what goes on inside.<\/p>\n<p>I live a life that seems so full and active<br \/>\nbut inside I&#8217;m worn out and very tired.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long hard struggle<br \/>\nand on with it I&#8217;ll go.<br \/>\nAnd as good as life is, I&#8217;ll never know<br \/>\nthe freedom that real weightless, mindless,<br \/>\nresponsibility free existence can provide&#8211;<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s something that was in the youth<br \/>\nI left behind<br \/>\ntwo decades ago<\/p>\n<p>But the rosy painted picture<br \/>\nperceived by those around me<br \/>\npre-empts any strike against<br \/>\nwhat I feel inside.<\/p>\n<p>I know how hard it is<br \/>\nto keep on living this life,<br \/>\nbut I&#8217;ll go on,<br \/>\nand I&#8217;ll go on,<br \/>\nand then one day<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to paint a rosy picture<br \/> with words and actions<br \/> that don&#8217;t represent what goes on inside.<\/p>\n<p>I live a life that seems so full and active<br \/> but inside I&#8217;m worn out and very tired.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long hard struggle<br \/> and on with it I&#8217;ll go.<br \/> And as good as life is, I&#8217;ll [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","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=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}