{"id":747,"date":"2013-03-11T04:35:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T04:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scriptorum.imagicity.com\/?p=747"},"modified":"2013-03-11T04:35:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T04:35:53","slug":"for-years-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/village-explainer.kabisan.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/11\/for-years-the-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"For years, the devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, the devil stood behind my shoulder,<br \/>\nMore menacing than metaphor or fact,<br \/>\nAnd mocking, scrutinised my every act.<br \/>\nStrengthened by my sin, but never bolder,<br \/>\nHe preyed on each miscue; and so bewildered,<br \/>\nI never knew so much as what I lacked.<br \/>\nThe prism of his gaze was bright and cracked,<br \/>\nAnd through it, every failure fused and filtered.<\/p>\n<p>No saint had ever such a close companion,<br \/>\nNor misery as sweet, nor pain as dear,<br \/>\nInfallible, unflinching and sincere.<br \/>\nSo hope, faith and belief were all abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>In terror, in my guilt, I never crossed him,<br \/>\nBut aged and bored, I find now that I&#8217;ve lost him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, the devil stood behind my shoulder, More menacing than metaphor or fact, And mocking, scrutinised my every act. Strengthened by my sin, but never bolder, He preyed on each miscue; and so bewildered, I never knew so much as what I lacked. The prism of his gaze was bright and cracked, And through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/village-explainer.kabisan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/village-explainer.kabisan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/village-explainer.kabisan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/village-explainer.kabisan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/village-explainer.kabisan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/village-explainer.kabisan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/village-explainer.kabisan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/village-explainer.kabisan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/village-explainer.kabisan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}