{"id":955,"date":"2020-10-22T12:30:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T16:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/?p=955"},"modified":"2020-10-22T12:30:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T16:30:34","slug":"on-being-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/on-being-human\/","title":{"rendered":"On Being Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People will always do<br \/>\nwhat they want to do<br \/>\neventually.<br \/>\nYou can never stop &#8217;em.<br \/>\nNo matter what pains or pleasures<br \/>\nimposed<br \/>\neventually<br \/>\nthey&#8217;ll get there<br \/>\nand do it. <\/p>\n<p>Jesus, Bundy, Madoff, Mandelstam, Martin Jr.<br \/>\neven sophisticated Syssiphus<br \/>\nthey all got there.<br \/>\nThere was no holding them back.<\/p>\n<p>So don&#8217;t worry if<br \/>\nyou can&#8217;t get there &#8230;<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re in a tired marriage<br \/>\nYou push papers around endlessly each day<br \/>\nNobody reads your poems<br \/>\nYou have 4 toddlers and no ticket out<br \/>\nLife makes no sense<br \/>\nThe virus has you locked inside. <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll get there &#8211; eventually.<br \/>\nEverybody does.<br \/>\nEverybody will always do<br \/>\nwhat they want to do. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what<br \/>\nmakes us human.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People will always do what they want to do eventually. You can never stop &#8217;em. No matter what pains or pleasures imposed eventually they&#8217;ll get there and do it. Jesus, Bundy, Madoff, Mandelstam, Martin Jr. even sophisticated Syssiphus they all got there. There was no holding them back. So don&#8217;t worry if you can&#8217;t get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/on-being-human\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On Being Human<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}