{"id":588,"date":"2012-09-01T13:40:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T18:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/?p=588"},"modified":"2012-09-01T13:40:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T18:40:49","slug":"reflections-on-a-life-urban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/2012\/09\/01\/reflections-on-a-life-urban\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on a life urban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/urban.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/urban.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"urban\" width=\"522\" height=\"392\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/urban.jpg 522w, https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/urban-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reflections on a life urban<br \/>\nA choice<br \/>\nSome are born here<br \/>\nOthers migrate<br \/>\nLike myself<br \/>\nBut why?<br \/>\nFor the destitute asleep in our doorways?<br \/>\nFor the congestion<br \/>\nThe filth<br \/>\nWe live the life urban<br \/>\nExpensive days<br \/>\nSleepless nights<br \/>\nForgetting the earth<br \/>\nInstead living in concrete<br \/>\nInstead living on top of each other<br \/>\nPacked in<br \/>\nSuffering<br \/>\nSuffocating<br \/>\nSome born here<br \/>\nHoping to escape<br \/>\nOthers trapped<br \/>\nBy steel<br \/>\nBy intersections<br \/>\nBy life<br \/>\nBy themselves<br \/>\nAnd myself<br \/>\nStuck in place<br \/>\nIn this place<br \/>\nThis space<br \/>\nSo crowded<br \/>\nDirty<br \/>\nDreams come here<br \/>\nSome dreams die<br \/>\nSome fulfilled<br \/>\nIt keeps us waiting<br \/>\nBiding our time<br \/>\nIn this urban hell<br \/>\nWe choose to call home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflections on a life urban A choice Some are born here Others migrate Like myself But why? For the destitute asleep in our doorways? For the congestion The filth We live the life urban Expensive days Sleepless nights Forgetting the earth Instead living in concrete Instead living on top of each other Packed in Suffering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavinhignight.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}