{"id":230,"date":"2024-05-19T03:37:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T03:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/?p=230"},"modified":"2024-05-29T01:04:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T01:04:17","slug":"the-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/19\/the-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>All this life weighs on my neck, leaning harder and harder <br><br>I can\u2019t wrap my head around this looming stress, growing larger and larger <br><br>It gets too heavy, rapidly, my brain is receding <br><br>Into the jaws of my face, my cheeks appear to be sinking <br><br>Barely able to walk, talk, eat, or think <br><br>It feels impossible to verge change\u2019s brink, or even envision the possibility <br><br>Having minimal time, low capacity, and limited ability  <br><br>I\u2019m finding difficulty escaping this mentality; this reality staring back at me <br><br>Hair is disappearing; weakened, and the facial lines have deepened <br><br>They never leave, though I could altogether <br><br>Maybe I should have half-a-mind to leave things better <br><br>The pressure\u2019s expanding quite too vast; and all too fast, half of life just passed <br><br>Feel me? Hear me? Care? <br><br>I&#8217;m only here where living took me, in the middle of nowhere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All this life weighs on my neck, leaning harder and harder I can\u2019t wrap my head around this looming stress, growing larger and larger It gets too heavy, rapidly, my brain is receding Into the jaws of my face, my cheeks appear to be sinking Barely able to walk, talk, eat, or think It feels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writers-block"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}