{"id":421,"date":"2020-05-28T19:24:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T17:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/?p=421"},"modified":"2020-05-28T19:24:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T17:24:46","slug":"bleak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Bleak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Its landscapes were barren,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the streets so flat,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An emptiness of wonders,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A bleak country,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dull people,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purposeless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I wander and see,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder what I see,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A rain that doesn&#8217;t fall,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fire that doesn&#8217;t burn,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A sun that can&#8217;t shine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I wander and hear,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what I hear,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A music that doesn&#8217;t play,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A dog that doesn&#8217;t bark,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A wolf that can&#8217;t howl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I senseless, deaf and blind?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I absent from the light?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or have my senses betrayed me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;t hear,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I can&#8217;t see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its landscapes were barren, And the streets so flat, An emptiness of wonders, A bleak country, Dull people, Purposeless. And I wander and see, I wonder what I see, A rain that doesn&#8217;t fall, A fire that doesn&#8217;t burn, A sun that can&#8217;t shine. And I wander and hear, I don&#8217;t know what I hear, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/?p=421\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bleak&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}