{"id":200,"date":"2019-10-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"the-past-and-the-nonexistent-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/31\/the-past-and-the-nonexistent-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The past and the nonexistent future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>You said it with finality<br \/>\nas though unlike sticks and stones<br \/>\nwords couldn&#8217;t break parts of me<br \/>\nit couldn&#8217;t smear ink on letters<br \/>\nyou didn&#8217;t want read <br \/>\nas though the statement <br \/>\nwouldn&#8217;t code in an infinite loop<br \/>\nof questions <br \/>\ntiring synapses till they paused<br \/>\nto reflect on my self worth<\/p>\n<p>If I were in your shoes<br \/>\nI would have gone for a walk<br \/>\non a guilt trip and then<br \/>\nI would have done it differently<\/p>\n<p>I could never say<br \/>\n&#8220;I ate the last slice of pizza.&#8221;<br \/>\nI would have taken the slice<br \/>\nfrom the fridge to the microwave<br \/>\nreheated it till the cheese melted<br \/>\ngone up to you and said<br \/>\n&#8220;There was only one slice left.<br \/>\nWould you like to share?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And like a pot of steaming<br \/>\nchicken noodle soup <br \/>\nI would let you simmer in the guilt<br \/>\nof what you would have done.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You said it with finality  as though unlike sticks and stones  words couldn&#8217;t break parts of me  it couldn&#8217;t smear ink on letters  you didn&#8217;t want read   as though the statement   wouldn&#8217;t code in an infinite loop  of questions   tiring synapses till&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ajulea.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}