{"id":351,"date":"2010-08-04T06:41:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T11:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php"},"modified":"2014-03-24T01:30:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T08:30:37","slug":"torpor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/writing\/writing-2002\/torpor","title":{"rendered":"Torpor"},"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>The mind-numbing light show goes on inside my head<br \/>\nLong after the phosphors fade on the screen<br \/>\nto buy and sell a life or nation<br \/>\nawakened to our petty darkness<br \/>\ntoo late to save the young<br \/>\nstriving for nothing but pablum<br \/>\nbuy, sell, trade your very soul<br \/>\nfree with every order<br \/>\nA smattering of hope, visions parallel<br \/>\nnot of this world, yet made of this flesh<br \/>\nthis design<br \/>\nas slaves we move forward<br \/>\ninto what?<br \/>\nHardly awake, lulled into torpor<br \/>\nas the phosphors flash and fade<br \/>\nDo we know what it is to be alive?<\/p>\n<p>Is this legacy or destiny?<\/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 The mind-numbing light show goes on inside my head Long after the phosphors fade on the screen to buy and sell a life or nation awakened to our petty darkness too late to save the young striving for nothing but pablum buy, sell, trade your very soul free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":288,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-351","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351","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=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/351\/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=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}