{"id":1605,"date":"2002-12-20T01:31:01","date_gmt":"2002-12-20T09:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2013-04-01T01:31:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T08:31:49","slug":"the-things-that-free-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/2002\/12\/20\/the-things-that-free-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The Things that Free Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are imprisoned by the things that free us;<br \/>\nI remember the freedom of my first car,<br \/>\nand the ensuing enslavement to transportation.<\/p>\n<p>I remember the freedom of my first love,<br \/>\nand the enslavement of emotional attachment.<\/p>\n<p>we are freed by the things that enslave us;<br \/>\nI remember the freedom of my first paycheck,<br \/>\nthe enslavement of the job that gave it to me.<\/p>\n<p>We are freed by the things that free us.<\/p>\n<p>Death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are imprisoned by the things that free us;<br \/> I remember the freedom of my first car,<br \/> and the ensuing enslavement to transportation.<\/p>\n<p>I remember the freedom of my first love,<br \/> and the enslavement of emotional attachment.<\/p>\n<p>we are freed by the things that enslave us;<br \/> I remember the freedom of my first paycheck,<br \/> the [&#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-1605","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\/1605","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=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}