{"id":834,"date":"1987-12-12T19:51:08","date_gmt":"1987-12-13T03:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=834"},"modified":"2011-09-03T19:53:22","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T02:53:22","slug":"am-i-living-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1987\/12\/12\/am-i-living-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I Living?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it a distant part in which I live?<br \/>\nDistant, though<br \/>\nNot extant,<br \/>\nBut in the labyrinth of<br \/>\nDistant, extant<br \/>\nFeelings.<br \/>\nIs it that distant part that thrives<br \/>\nWithin the distant parts of<br \/>\nMy own being?<\/p>\n<p>Or is it a distant part that exists<br \/>\nIn the very near<br \/>\nAnd very close<br \/>\nAnd inseparable<br \/>\nPart of me<br \/>\nThat is unknown to me.<\/p>\n<p>Could I be living in<br \/>\nMyself?<br \/>\nAll that lies in the farthest<br \/>\nReaches of my being<br \/>\nCan be reached<br \/>\nOnly by my self,<br \/>\nAnd exists only<br \/>\nThrough my experience of it.<\/p>\n<p>Through my experience<br \/>\nAnything can exist,<br \/>\nAnything can be<br \/>\nAnd everything in<br \/>\nMy experience is.<\/p>\n<p>I live through my distant parts,<br \/>\nThe distant memories,<br \/>\nThe distant hopes,<br \/>\nThe distant fears,<br \/>\nThe distant facts:<br \/>\nToo distant to be now realized,<br \/>\nThough facts they remain.<\/p>\n<p>Those distant parts,<br \/>\nMy memories,<br \/>\nAre as distant as tomorrow,<br \/>\nBut as close as now.<br \/>\nThrough and with and in<br \/>\nThem I live.<\/p>\n<p>Through and with and in<br \/>\nThem I experience,<br \/>\nAnd thereby add<br \/>\nTo them. <\/p>\n<p>Through and with and in<br \/>\nThem I am,<br \/>\nFor I am through and with<br \/>\nAnd in them.<br \/>\nAnd I am them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it a distant part in which I live?<br \/> Distant, though<br \/> Not extant,<br \/> But in the labyrinth of<br \/> Distant, extant<br \/> Feelings.<br \/> Is it that distant part that thrives<br \/> Within the distant parts of<br \/> My own being?<\/p>\n<p>Or is it a distant part that exists<br \/> In the very near<br \/> And very [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-metaphysical","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","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=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}