{"id":398,"date":"2006-05-29T16:57:39","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T22:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/writing\/1993\/1-23-93\/"},"modified":"2006-05-29T17:00:14","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T23:00:14","slug":"1-23-93","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=398","title":{"rendered":"1-23-93 Inauguration"},"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=398\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>1\/21+ 23\/93<\/p>\n<p><strong> Inauguration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I came east into chaos willingly<br \/>\nTo help celebrate a change of people and  promises<br \/>\nEyebrow raised, mercenary posture<br \/>\nI wandered into the white folds of the mall<br \/>\nAnd was welcomed by the hope of common men and women<\/p>\n<p>Never has such positive energy surrounded me<br \/>\nInfectious, it drew the people out and down<br \/>\nThru the cold to share and explore<br \/>\nEach other<\/p>\n<p>As the moment neared another shadow whispered<br \/>\nOlder, unkinder, ungentler<br \/>\nA voice that has spoken through my father<br \/>\nAnd through myself<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s underhanded breath sneering<br \/>\n&#8220;Nothing&#8217;s changed, here&#8217;s your proof, put your faith aside&#8221;<br \/>\nThe flawless execution of theater<br \/>\nBy two who gave me a sense of humanity, flaws<br \/>\nand other things<\/p>\n<p>I want to cradle that faith against me<br \/>\nLet the voices fall upon my deaf ear<br \/>\nKeep the hope of sunrises and drying earth<br \/>\nNear the fragile balance my path allows me<br \/>\nClose to both my heart and eyes<\/p>\n<p>Not in the form of promises to shake when broken<br \/>\nOr boughs to be placed on the next raging pyre<br \/>\nTo have some change that is<br \/>\nnot in response to cardboard pleas<br \/>\nThis is not an unwelcome feeling<br \/>\nAs this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1\/21+ 23\/93 Inauguration I came east into chaos willingly To help celebrate a change of people and promises Eyebrow raised, mercenary posture I wandered into the white folds of the mall And was welcomed by the hope of common men and women Never has such positive energy surrounded me Infectious, it drew the people out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":395,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PeNcU-6q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/398"}],"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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/398\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}