{"id":217,"date":"2019-06-04T00:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T00:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onyx23.net\/beats\/?p=217"},"modified":"2019-06-04T00:02:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T00:02:21","slug":"the-flashlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/2019\/06\/04\/the-flashlight\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flashlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>sometimes in the night<br \/>\nI like to play<br \/>\nwith a flashlight<br \/>\nnarrow the focus of the beam<br \/>\nto make it a thin stream<br \/>\nof astonishing brilliance<br \/>\nthen I will hit my pillow<br \/>\nbillowing up a piles<br \/>\nof near microscopic dust<br \/>\nthat will twinkle<br \/>\nlike distant\u00a0 stars<br \/>\nacross the field of radiance<br \/>\nthat shines<br \/>\nlike an artificial sun<br \/>\nin the midnight milky way<br \/>\nof my lonely old room<\/p>\n<p>sometimes I will pretend<br \/>\nthat the flashlight<br \/>\nis a miniature rocket<br \/>\nset to lift off<br \/>\nfrom the launch pad<br \/>\nof my bed<br \/>\nand it will swish and sway<br \/>\nfrom one end to the other<br \/>\nuntil my arm tires<br \/>\nor I get bored<br \/>\nof these sci-fi fantasies<br \/>\nthen I will lay back down<br \/>\nto drown in this ordinary world<br \/>\nforced to live out<br \/>\nmy existence<br \/>\non this gravitational prison that will forever be my home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sometimes in the night I like to play with a flashlight narrow the focus of the beam to make it a thin stream of astonishing brilliance then I will hit<a href=\"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/2019\/06\/04\/the-flashlight\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Flashlight<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}