{"id":156,"date":"2021-07-29T20:42:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T20:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diary.katemcaleer.co.uk\/?p=156"},"modified":"2021-07-29T20:56:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T20:56:27","slug":"directions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diary.katemcaleer.co.uk\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Directions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">I never \nasked for this \u2013 \nI only wanted what they all had.\nAnd that's not so much to ask for, is it? \nTo see a tree and say, \"well I'll climb that!\" \n\nI must have picked up all their bad habits\nI must have missed the moment we changed tracks\nNow the lines are getting all muddled\nNow I'm struggling to play it back\n\nThe cartoons were all rags to riches\nBut I'd rather we invest in rags\nThe owners lied to me at the clubhouse\nTheir golden compass was all out of whack\n\nI'm slowly writing down my new directions\nI'm being wary of the word 'fact'\nI'm believing in us all at once\nI'm following the both, and\n\nMy heart is giving, giving, giving\nAnd the soil is giving, giving back\nI only hope my bones will travel with me\nJust \u2013 \n                could my father ever smile on seeing that?  <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never<br \/>\nasked for this \u2013<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diary.katemcaleer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diary.katemcaleer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diary.katemcaleer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diary.katemcaleer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diary.katemcaleer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/diary.katemcaleer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/diary.katemcaleer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diary.katemcaleer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diary.katemcaleer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diary.katemcaleer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}