{"id":136682,"date":"2023-09-02T20:16:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136682"},"modified":"2023-09-06T21:06:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T01:06:21","slug":"age-and-wisdom-or-something-like-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/age-and-wisdom-or-something-like-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Barricades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have learned to<\/p>\n<p>keep my opinions<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>in a closet, since<\/p>\n<p>they will most likely<\/p>\n<p>be censored.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not directly,<\/p>\n<p>of course, but<\/p>\n<p>so-called friends<\/p>\n<p>may well disown me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The herd represents<\/p>\n<p>security for most people,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>but for me it means<\/p>\n<p>I could get trampled.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, I\u2019ll stay in the closet<\/p>\n<p>alone, pretending<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s my own meadow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>that no one can visit<\/p>\n<p>without my permission,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>but the assholes<\/p>\n<p>always enter anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have learned to keep my opinions &nbsp; in a closet, since they will most likely be censored. &nbsp; Not directly, of course, but so-called friends may well disown me. &nbsp; The herd represents security for most people, &nbsp; but for me it means I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136682"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145096,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136682\/revisions\/145096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}