{"id":139826,"date":"2023-09-03T01:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=139826"},"modified":"2023-09-03T01:37:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:37:00","slug":"flamingo-dreams-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/flamingo-dreams-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Flamingo dreams #17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pink flamingo<br \/>\nGave me a kaleidoscope<br \/>\nThat I might better see<br \/>\nThe repeating patterns<br \/>\nOf all mankind<br \/>\nAnd their futility<br \/>\nI turned the wheel<br \/>\nThis way and that<br \/>\nLike another little hamster<br \/>\nBut no matter how hard I tried<br \/>\nI couldn&#8217;t find the answer<br \/>\nTo slowing down I was so mesmerised<br \/>\nThat it made me forget to think<br \/>\nBut I knew in my most secret soul<br \/>\nIt was pushing me over the brink<br \/>\nThen it came to me in a vision<br \/>\nAs Alan Watts dressed in a kinono<br \/>\nFinished a lecture he had given<br \/>\n&#8216;To stop the pattern stop the wheel<br \/>\nTell me afterward how it feels&#8217;<br \/>\nAnd so I did and the patterns ceased<br \/>\nAnd I found myself released<br \/>\nUntil my alarm clock roused me<br \/>\nAnd the visions ceased<br \/>\nAnd i with regret got out of bed<br \/>\nAway from my flamingo dream angelic<br \/>\nI have to remember not to go to sleep<br \/>\nHaving taken psychedelics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pink flamingo Gave me a kaleidoscope That I might better see The repeating patterns Of all mankind And their futility I turned the wheel This way and that Like another little hamster But no matter how hard I tried I couldn&#8217;t find the answer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139826","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\/4830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139840,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139826\/revisions\/139840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}