{"id":349,"date":"2010-08-04T06:40:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T11:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php"},"modified":"2014-03-24T01:30:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T08:30:30","slug":"learning-to-fly-again","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/writing\/writing-2002\/learning-to-fly-again","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Fly Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><em>By Martin Falatic<br \/>\nWritten 2002-06-18<br \/>\nRevised 2002-06-18<\/em><\/h5>\n<div class=\"hr\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Oh, how long since these wings were clipped<br \/>\nBy mean cuts in the darkness before me<br \/>\nThe light of day stabs and burns<br \/>\nWhile the moon and stars stay hidden from my heart<br \/>\nOld promises evaporate from memory<br \/>\nYearnings true &#8211; buried deeply<br \/>\nA skeptical soul balanced between<br \/>\nWhat was and what may be<br \/>\nTo fall to Earth from lofty hopes<br \/>\nUnless Earth as here is but an illusion<br \/>\nA soul trap built by consensus<br \/>\nTo enslave the spirit on every plane<br \/>\nConnections broken, lives adrift<br \/>\nSullen in their silence<br \/>\nHaving forgotten what it is to fly<br \/>\nTo see beyond a human&#8217;s eye<\/p>\n<div class=\"hr\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Martin Falatic Written 2002-06-18 Revised 2002-06-18 Oh, how long since these wings were clipped By mean cuts in the darkness before me The light of day stabs and burns While the moon and stars stay hidden from my heart Old promises evaporate from memory Yearnings true &#8211; buried deeply A skeptical soul balanced between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":288,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-349","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}