{"id":233,"date":"1986-07-20T17:17:39","date_gmt":"1986-07-21T00:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:09:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:09:53","slug":"perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1986\/07\/20\/perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Such intrinsic futility as<br \/>\nIn the attempts for the<br \/>\nBetterment of society<br \/>\nLead only to dissatisfied,<br \/>\nAnd disillusioned multitude &#8211;<br \/>\nA multitude without hope.<\/p>\n<p>This is better than that one,<br \/>\nBut both do the same job,<br \/>\nA job, as all jobs,<br \/>\nArisen from the lack<br \/>\nOf perfection of another.<\/p>\n<p>Things get better and better,<br \/>\nBut better than what?<br \/>\nNone approach perfection.<br \/>\nIn an imperfect world<br \/>\nWe live as imperfect beings,<br \/>\nAnd we measure our tolerances<br \/>\nOf imperfections;<br \/>\nOur tolerance of life.<\/p>\n<p>You tolerate a working world.<br \/>\nYou tolerate your discomfort.<br \/>\nThis part is built to a<br \/>\nTolerance of plus or minus zero<br \/>\nPoint zero zero one percent.<\/p>\n<p>Such as are the measures<br \/>\nOf imperfections,<br \/>\nSo what then can be perfect?<\/p>\n<p>How can you measure perfection,<br \/>\nIn an imperfect world?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical","category-poems","category-social"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","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=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}