{"id":248,"date":"2015-07-22T11:07:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T18:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomswritings.lewczyk.net\/?p=248"},"modified":"2021-05-30T16:47:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T16:47:13","slug":"the-house-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"The House [Classic] (unfinished poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>This, which I wrote years ago, seems related to my more-recent passage <a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"http:\/\/tomswritings.lewczyk.net\/?p=14\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Abandoned by all things divine<br \/>\nSurpassing death, transcending time<br \/>\nThe House stands hungry, eager in its wait<br \/>\nOf life The House becomes aware<br \/>\nA braggart&#8217;s bet, a liar&#8217;s dare<br \/>\nA hand reluctant reaches for the gate<\/p>\n<p>Into the inner depths of mind<br \/>\nWhere fear and pleasure sleep entwined<br \/>\nThe House steps soft through unfamiliar ground<br \/>\nA wave of joy, a burst of pain<br \/>\nThe hand withdraws, then moves again<br \/>\nWith\u00a0hand to gate,\u00a0a heart begins to pound<\/p>\n<p><em>(NOTE TO SELF: I have more individual lines written that could be included in future verses.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This, which I wrote years ago, seems related to my more-recent passage here. Abandoned by all things divine Surpassing death, transcending time The House stands hungry, eager in its wait Of life The House becomes aware A braggart&#8217;s bet, a liar&#8217;s dare A hand reluctant reaches for the gate Into the inner depths of mind &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=248\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The House [Classic] (unfinished 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":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"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=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1493,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}