{"id":1866,"date":"2021-12-03T07:35:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T15:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2022-01-07T13:07:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T21:07:56","slug":"i-was-once-an-ant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=1866","title":{"rendered":"I Was Once An Ant [Classic] (13 line poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color\" style=\"color: #00006d;\"><em>Surprisingly, I found <\/em><\/span><em><span class=\"has-inline-color\" style=\"color: #00006d;\">an old poem that isn&#8217;t about monsters and death<\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I was once an ant.<br \/>Timid. Afraid.<br \/>Blindly rushing about with no purpose.<\/p>\r\n<p>Then it happened.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I was once a stone.<br \/>Ignorant of my surroundings.<br \/>Achieving nothing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Now\u2026<\/p>\r\n<p>Now I soar with the wind,<br \/><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">\u2014\u2014<\/span>and look down on the stars.<br \/>Now I stride across oceans,<br \/><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\"> \u2014\u2014<\/span>and mountains stand aside.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I am in love.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprisingly, I found an old poem that isn&#8217;t about monsters and death. I was once an ant.Timid. Afraid.Blindly rushing about with no purpose. Then it happened. I was once a stone.Ignorant of my surroundings.Achieving nothing. Now\u2026 Now I soar with the wind,\u2014\u2014and look down on the stars.Now I stride across oceans, \u2014\u2014and mountains stand aside. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=1866\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Was Once An Ant [Classic] (13 line poem)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}