{"id":444,"date":"2015-07-29T13:28:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T20:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomswritings.lewczyk.net\/?p=444"},"modified":"2025-12-09T11:11:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T19:11:34","slug":"splice-of-the-manic-depressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"Splice of the Manic-Depressive [Classic] (20 line poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mania<\/span><br \/>\nI love the world<br \/>\nThe sky so blue above my head<br \/>\nThe colors of the splendrous dawn<br \/>\nTo live is fun<br \/>\nI&#8217;m happy as a man can be<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Depression<\/span><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>The world is dead<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>My life&#8217;s a mess, I can&#8217;t go on<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>I want to die<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>I think I&#8217;ll go and get a gun<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>To take my life away from me<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Splice of the Manic-<span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Depressive<\/em><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nI love the world<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>The world is dead<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nThe sky so blue above my head<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>My life&#8217;s a mess, I can&#8217;t go on<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nThe colors of the splendrous dawn<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>I want to die<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nTo live is fun<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>I think I&#8217;ll go and get a gun<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy as a man can be<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>To take my life away from me<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mania I love the world The sky so blue above my head The colors of the splendrous dawn To live is fun I&#8217;m happy as a man can be Depression The world is dead My life&#8217;s a mess, I can&#8217;t go on I want to die I think I&#8217;ll go and get a gun To &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=444\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Splice of the Manic-Depressive [Classic] (20 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\/444"}],"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=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3293,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/3293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}