{"id":1263,"date":"2011-02-19T17:25:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T22:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=1263"},"modified":"2011-02-19T17:25:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T22:25:58","slug":"first-signs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=1263","title":{"rendered":"First Signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=1263\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Subtle shifts<br \/>\nBack to the right kind of pain<br \/>\nFinally noticing the first word<br \/>\nIn the term human frailty<br \/>\nSwitch the second to shortcoming<br \/>\nOr potential<br \/>\nThe first word is the mystery, the adjective<br \/>\nThe one that lacks perfection and adds character<\/p>\n<p>As the dark weight breaks<br \/>\nAnd other familiar notions visit<br \/>\nHuman explains both the broken balance and the fallacy<br \/>\nHow could anything be organic when such a noble ego,<br \/>\nThe silent poet, who feels and never speaks<br \/>\nCould be the only reason a marriage, a family, a life to be failing<\/p>\n<p>Fragile ego<br \/>\nStubborn that it could be the body<br \/>\nNot granting the brain its food<br \/>\nJust as the long scar on my chest<br \/>\nReminds me of how the pipes didn&#8217;t give the heart<br \/>\nThe blood to pump and spread<br \/>\nThroughout this body that somehow keeps working<br \/>\nDespite the lazy mind that watches, worrying<\/p>\n<p>So the time for the brilliant brain<br \/>\nTo be a patient passenger<br \/>\nIs here, again not allowed to insist<br \/>\nOn terminal uniqueness<br \/>\nTo trust direction from outside, unbiased<br \/>\nAnd wait for the flowers of spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subtle shifts Back to the right kind of pain Finally noticing the first word In the term human frailty Switch the second to shortcoming Or potential The first word is the mystery, the adjective The one that lacks perfection and adds character As the dark weight breaks And other familiar notions visit Human explains both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1261,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PeNcU-kn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1263\/revisions\/1264"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}