{"id":357,"date":"2010-08-04T06:44:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T11:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php"},"modified":"2014-03-24T01:29:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T08:29:42","slug":"yearnings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/writing\/writing-2002\/yearnings","title":{"rendered":"Yearnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><em>By Martin Falatic<br \/>\nWritten 2002-07-31<br \/>\nRevised 2002-07-31<\/em><\/h5>\n<div class=\"hr\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<pre>This is the life you can never live\r\nThe fantasy world not ours to give\r\nA place of enchantments and derring-do\r\nWhere fairies alight on the morning dew,\r\n\r\nSwashbuckling heroes do dangerous things,\r\nFor fair young maidens and magical rings\r\nBeyond black or white, and right or wrong,\r\nEnlightenment colors the minds of the strong,\r\n\r\nThere is no such world for mortals to find,\r\nThere is no escaping the shackles of Time\r\nFor the Real is here, the learned attest,\r\nDerisive the sneers at such folly and jest\r\n\r\nDeep in your heart, blind faith you do keep,\r\nFor a world unlike now is that which you seek\r\nIt's folly for most, doing work-a-day things,\r\nNever stopping to ponder more marvelous things\r\n\r\nIt is for the children, not schooled yet wise,\r\nIt is for the old, who've forgotten these lies\r\nA world where the cynic will not cast his eyes,\r\nIt exists all around us...\r\n        A world in disguise.<\/pre>\n<div class=\"hr\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Martin Falatic Written 2002-07-31 Revised 2002-07-31 This is the life you can never live The fantasy world not ours to give A place of enchantments and derring-do Where fairies alight on the morning dew, Swashbuckling heroes do dangerous things, For fair young maidens and magical rings Beyond black or white, and right or wrong, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":288,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-357","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/357","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=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/357\/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=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}