{"id":2047,"date":"2014-04-28T12:21:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T01:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2047"},"modified":"2014-04-28T12:24:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T01:24:25","slug":"napowrimo-day-28reaching-for-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2047","title":{"rendered":"NaPoWriMo Day 28: reaching for the stars&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/graffiti.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2048\" alt=\"graffiti\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/graffiti.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>reaching for the stars in the<\/h4>\n<h4>lower socio-economic suburbs<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>we sing the clich\u00e9s like a mantra. climb every mountain higher \/follow your heart\u2019s desire \/ and when that rainbow\u2019s shining over you\u00a0 \/<\/p>\n<p>that\u2019s when your dreams will all come true.<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s the new secular catechism but when dad\u2019s in jail and mum\u2019s on drugs life\u2019s too overcast for rainbows \/ mountains are overwhelming and it\u2019s easier to just sit there and let the others climb in a life when options are limited you can only assert yourself by passive resistance. let the others climb. you can\u2019t make me move. i\u2019ll just sit here like fat buddha. let the mountain come to mohammed. you can\u2019t make me do anything. let them reach for the stars. my life is mostly cloudy with a strong chance of rain and i can\u2019t even see your stupid stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>reaching for the stars in the lower socio-economic suburbs &nbsp; we sing the clich\u00e9s like a mantra. climb every mountain higher \/follow your heart\u2019s desire \/ and when that rainbow\u2019s shining over you\u00a0 \/ that\u2019s when your dreams will all &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=2047\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2053,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions\/2053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}