{"id":717,"date":"2006-11-02T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/writing\/1995\/11-8-95-beyond-arms-reach\/"},"modified":"2006-11-02T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T22:53:00","slug":"11-8-95-beyond-arms-reach","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=717","title":{"rendered":"11-8-95 beyond arm&#8217;s reach"},"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=717\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>London<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m finding that<br \/>\nThe hardest part of being away<br \/>\nAre the people of need<br \/>\nWhere I wish the heat of my palm<br \/>\nCould be found on their back<br \/>\nSilence, sweet silence shared<br \/>\nPreferred over the mutters and sorrys<br \/>\nThat the phone dribbles forth<br \/>\nThings that must be done<br \/>\nIn person<\/p>\n<p>Now to see life pulled<br \/>\nLike a renegade thread escaped from<br \/>\nThe weave of a poorly made shirt<br \/>\nThe vibrant breaths, youths time-lapsed<br \/>\nCheated friends you thought immune<br \/>\nNow fighting rather than walking<br \/>\nThe water keeps not the flowers fresh<br \/>\nSpoiled among the preserved<br \/>\nAnd yet we all get old and die<br \/>\nSome go before us, the list ignored<br \/>\nHow the sadness of our friends difficult paths<br \/>\nMay foreshadow our fears<br \/>\nOr the jealousy of our inadequate wills.<em><\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London I&#8217;m finding that The hardest part of being away Are the people of need Where I wish the heat of my palm Could be found on their back Silence, sweet silence shared Preferred over the mutters and sorrys That the phone dribbles forth Things that must be done In person Now to see life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":691,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PeNcU-bz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/717"}],"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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/717\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}