{"id":1315,"date":"2014-11-11T22:36:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T22:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2016-10-27T19:23:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T18:23:34","slug":"do-not-follow-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/?p=1315","title":{"rendered":"Evening lights, November"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"poem\">\nTime.<br \/>\nI fear I shall lose my mind<br \/>\nFor if I cast a glance at night<br \/>\nAlong the congested lanes, I fancy I find<br \/>\nNo choking queues only veins of light<br \/>\nScarlet and vanilla. Amid the blaze<br \/>\nI find my fireflies and tinker bells<br \/>\nThey waited patiently for me to stray<br \/>\nAnd I long for a chance to follow them<br \/>\nBack into those cotton-wooled, milky days<br \/>\nAnd see my mother once again young and my brother,<br \/>\nAlways together, both distant and within<br \/>\nAnd play the nursery games we surely played.<\/p>\n<p>If it was not casually given or taken.<br \/>\nIf asked, I am sure he would have.<br \/>\nStayed.<\/p>\n<p>I bow my head to glance inside then travel on<br \/>\nChoked, as the dainty, daydream lights blink.<br \/>\nFade.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time. I fear I shall lose my mind For if I cast a glance at night Along the congested lanes, I fancy I find No choking queues only veins of light Scarlet and vanilla. Amid the blaze I find my fireflies and tinker bells They waited patiently for me to stray And I long for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scribbles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p53QCd-ld","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2027,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrislamb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}