{"id":472,"date":"2014-01-10T10:14:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T10:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=472"},"modified":"2014-01-10T10:24:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T10:24:56","slug":"downer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"downer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/images\/down.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>there are times in life<br \/>\nwhen I&#8217;m on a downer<br \/>\nI feel isolated<br \/>\nas the chill of emptiness<br \/>\nfalls over me\u00a0 ~\u00a0 not so unlike<br \/>\nthe snow that covers<br \/>\nthe limbs of the tree<br \/>\nat the edge<br \/>\nof the wooded drumlin&#8230;..\u00a0 adding<br \/>\nweight to its use as as metaphor<br \/>\n&#8217;cause it leans to the right<br \/>\nI know this void\u00a0\u00a0 ~<br \/>\nwith its\u00a0load<br \/>\nwill melt away<br \/>\nlike it has<br \/>\nmany times before<br \/>\nalthough&#8230;.\u00a0 reminding me<br \/>\nlife ain&#8217;t always easy<br \/>\nand the struggle<br \/>\ncan make the strongest soul<br \/>\nmentally and physically down<br \/>\nwith a yearning for rest<br \/>\nwhile dwelling in seclusion<br \/>\nuntil able to emerge again<\/p>\n<p>Image &amp; Words by\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0~Keith Alan Hamilton~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>there are times in life when I&#8217;m on a downer I feel isolated as the chill of emptiness falls over me\u00a0 ~\u00a0 not so unlike the snow that covers the limbs of the tree at the edge of the wooded drumlin&#8230;..\u00a0 adding weight to its use as as metaphor &#8217;cause it leans to the right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=472\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;downer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imagewords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}