{"id":1660,"date":"2003-06-21T21:01:31","date_gmt":"2003-06-22T04:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2013-04-08T21:03:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T04:03:57","slug":"i-take-a-winding-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/2003\/06\/21\/i-take-a-winding-road\/","title":{"rendered":"I take a Winding Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I take a winding road,<br \/>\nthat leads me away from here<br \/>\nand it follows along the banks<br \/>\nof a lake so crystal clear.<\/p>\n<p>And the last quarter of a moon<br \/>\ncycles overhead.<br \/>\nand I wonder what will be<br \/>\ncoming out in the end.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve taken further away<br \/>\nA star-racked purpose<br \/>\nturns out the stripes I see<br \/>\nFollow them relentlessly<br \/>\ninto this moment&#8217;s eternity<\/p>\n<p>And I witness the elation<br \/>\nand I&#8217;ll bring it to the cause<br \/>\nI&#8217;m done with them for right now<br \/>\nI have no more.<\/p>\n<p>And I am growing weary<br \/>\nBut stronger yet it seems<br \/>\nand then drugged with life&#8217;s emotions<br \/>\nthat are dragging down on me<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll take it to another place<br \/>\nhaving left what I thought behind<br \/>\nAnd it is the end I know<br \/>\nand it&#8217;s here I&#8217;ll draw the blind<\/p>\n<p>The heights I&#8217;ve seen<br \/>\nand those yet unconquered<br \/>\nthey lure me to do more;<br \/>\nand in a downtrodden pathway<br \/>\nI keep coming back for more<\/p>\n<p>And here I am once again,<br \/>\non the banks of this river<br \/>\nready to run,<br \/>\nready to sweep,<br \/>\nready to share what I&#8217;ve been given.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I take a winding road,<br \/> that leads me away from here<br \/> and it follows along the banks<br \/> of a lake so crystal clear.<\/p>\n<p>And the last quarter of a moon<br \/> cycles overhead.<br \/> and I wonder what will be<br \/> coming out in the end.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve taken further away<br \/> A star-racked purpose<br \/> turns out [&#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-1660","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\/1660","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=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}