{"id":367,"date":"2021-11-19T00:49:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T00:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=367"},"modified":"2022-02-11T22:57:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T22:57:38","slug":"gaslight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"Gaslight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your eyes, they darken<br>Under the gaslight.<br>The shadows dance<br>Across your lips.<br>\u201cTruth,\u201d they say, but<br>The room whispers <em>lie<\/em>;<br>\u201cDay,\u201d they say, but<br>I swear it\u2019s night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After all this time,<br>Somehow dark is light<br>To my adjusted eye;<br>Right is not, and<br>Wrong is right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I start to speak,<br>But your shadow<br>Swallows the rays<br>Upon my lips.<br>And there you stand \u2014 you<br>Between the flame and me,<br>Between wrong and right, <br>Between chaos and truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">October 28, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your eyes, they darkenUnder the gaslight.The shadows danceAcross your lips.\u201cTruth,\u201d they say, butThe room whispers lie;\u201cDay,\u201d they say, butI swear it\u2019s night. After all this time,Somehow dark is lightTo my adjusted eye;Right is not, andWrong is right. I start to speak,But your shadowSwallows the raysUpon my lips.And there you stand \u2014 youBetween the flame and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[218,175,219,212,211,214,213,217,215,80,216],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-captivity","tag-emotional-abuse","tag-freedom","tag-gaslight","tag-gaslighting","tag-lie","tag-lies","tag-speaking-up","tag-true","tag-truth","tag-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}