{"id":361,"date":"1987-06-19T01:19:30","date_gmt":"1987-06-19T08:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=361"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:03:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:03:23","slug":"seeking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1987\/06\/19\/seeking\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a very normal person,<br \/>\nBy normal standards,<br \/>\nWho remarked rather amusedly<br \/>\nAt the sight of those<br \/>\nWho would call themselves punk,<br \/>\nAbout society&#8217;s production<br \/>\nOf those who dare the course<br \/>\nSociety at large does not deem,<br \/>\nBy normal standards,<br \/>\nNormal.<\/p>\n<p>Little was he aware that his<br \/>\nNormality was even more of<br \/>\nA product of society at large.<\/p>\n<p>Society, by normal standards,<br \/>\nHas failed through its<br \/>\nLack of unity,<br \/>\nIts diversification, and<br \/>\nFactional division:<br \/>\nIt has failed in its normal<br \/>\nStandards.<br \/>\nSociety fails to provide,<br \/>\nFor the individuals who comprise it,<br \/>\nIdentity.<\/p>\n<p>Society having failed them,<br \/>\nThey must seek their own.<br \/>\nThe normal man, by normal standards,<br \/>\nHides his lack of identity behind<br \/>\nHis normality:<br \/>\nThe punk hides his normality<br \/>\nBehind his lack of identity.<\/p>\n<p>But both are the same.<br \/>\nAnd at least with something,<br \/>\nBoth may identify.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a very normal person,<br \/> By normal standards,<br \/> Who remarked rather amusedly<br \/> At the sight of those<br \/> Who would call themselves punk,<br \/> About society&#8217;s production<br \/> Of those who dare the course<br \/> Society at large does not deem,<br \/> By normal standards,<br \/> Normal.<\/p>\n<p>Little was he aware that his<br \/> Normality was [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-social"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","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=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}