{"id":390,"date":"2006-05-29T16:27:53","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T22:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/writing\/10-23-92-cirque\/"},"modified":"2006-05-29T16:51:36","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T22:51:36","slug":"10-23-92-cirque","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=390","title":{"rendered":"10-23-92 Cirque"},"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=390\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>10\/23\/92<br \/>\nAgoura Hills<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nCirque<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So I was finally old enough to fall in love at the circus&#8230;<br \/>\nA place where casual contact begins the festivities<br \/>\nMy eyes checking rigging as if I knew good from bad<br \/>\nLooking logistically upward,outward<br \/>\nJust wanting to be able to let it wash over me;<\/p>\n<p>Yet this is not what the circus was before<br \/>\nSmaller, but easier to get lost in<br \/>\nI see a life choice before me,not for all,not for me<br \/>\nCommitment at such a level<br \/>\nTo pry beyond the greasepaint,past age and beauty<br \/>\nMy need to know the stagecraft,feelings,history<\/p>\n<p>(Now ghosts surface from my own).<\/p>\n<p>She was in the troupe,a face in the crowd<br \/>\nI felt I could tell you her story<br \/>\nAnd the layer between audience and performer<br \/>\nThe fragile sacred shroud that permits no further looking in<br \/>\nMade her all that much more to love:<br \/>\nUntouchable,ideal,beyond pollution;<br \/>\nHuman,flawed and wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Lost in the freedom of the proceedings<br \/>\nThey travel the air as if in a dream<br \/>\nI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10\/23\/92 Agoura Hills Cirque So I was finally old enough to fall in love at the circus&#8230; A place where casual contact begins the festivities My eyes checking rigging as if I knew good from bad Looking logistically upward,outward Just wanting to be able to let it wash over me; Yet this is not what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":394,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PeNcU-6i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/390"}],"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=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/390\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}