{"id":1266,"date":"2011-03-09T19:47:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T00:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=1266"},"modified":"2011-03-09T19:47:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T00:47:18","slug":"stolen-advice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=1266","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Advice"},"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=1266\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1000513.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1270\" title=\"barbed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1000513-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1000513-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1000513-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/P1000513-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flexing this muscle before the others<\/p>\n<p>Advice falling out of my mouth<\/p>\n<p>now grasped<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This exercise just as hard to start<\/p>\n<p>To work its way up to the point<\/p>\n<p>When the ache and excuses have no sway<\/p>\n<p>Spiritual endorphins released<\/p>\n<p>When the self slips away<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not as if there&#8217;s nothing to share<\/p>\n<p>The poet wants it to be a garden, not a list<\/p>\n<p>Not for self adoration<\/p>\n<p>But to let it grow into something else<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A long sigh,a warning, a road sign, a memory<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Is this ego or a conjurer&#8217;s secret wish?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it is, as a by product<\/p>\n<p>of exercise, of honest allocation<\/p>\n<p>The gym rat&#8217;s dream of muscles<\/p>\n<p>The gardener&#8217;s dream of rainbow blooms<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The poet to take complex feelings and simple observations<\/p>\n<p>And through language pumped by an honest soul<\/p>\n<p>Create something more than a grocery list<\/p>\n<p>Something that stands erect<\/p>\n<p>And can be noticed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AEM<\/p>\n<p>3\/9\/11<\/p>\n<p>FB,TX<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flexing this muscle before the others Advice falling out of my mouth now grasped &nbsp; This exercise just as hard to start To work its way up to the point When the ache and excuses have no sway Spiritual endorphins released When the self slips away &nbsp; It&#8217;s not as if there&#8217;s nothing to share [&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-kq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1266"}],"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=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1266\/revisions\/1276"}],"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=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}