{"id":67740,"date":"2020-06-27T16:30:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=67740"},"modified":"2020-06-27T16:45:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:45:53","slug":"madness-is-a-journey-and-a-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/madness-is-a-journey-and-a-destination\/","title":{"rendered":"Madness is a Journey and a Destination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spoilers for Portal 2 right through to the end. This poem lies beneath the Facility.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Johnson was never that sane<br \/>\nTo begin with, it probably came<br \/>\nFrom his family line<br \/>\nThat, or hitting the wine,<br \/>\nMight be why his dad named the kid &#8220;Cave&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>As for Caroline, though sadly used,<br \/>\nShe was more than a woman abused.<br \/>\nShe backed Cave&#8217;s plans with glee<br \/>\nThough unfortunately<br \/>\nBeing GLaDOS knocked all her screws loose<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s Wheatley up there in the frame<br \/>\nAnd his story is more of the same<br \/>\nThough his ego&#8217;s not helped<br \/>\nBy his poor sense of self<br \/>\nAnd the Itch worming into his brain<\/p>\n<p>When surrounded by madness, let&#8217;s face it<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s tempting to fully embrace it<br \/>\nBut that isn&#8217;t Chell&#8217;s way<br \/>\nAt the end of day<br \/>\nShe&#8217;ll pack up her trouble and space it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spoilers for Portal 2 right through to the end. This poem lies beneath the Facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2309,733,3438],"class_list":["post-67740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-hour8","tag-limerick","tag-portal-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67740","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\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68343,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67740\/revisions\/68343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}