{"id":807,"date":"2012-03-21T12:09:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T12:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/?p=807"},"modified":"2015-03-26T07:13:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T07:13:15","slug":"nail-biter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/nail-biter\/","title":{"rendered":"Nail Biter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by <a title=\"Nail Biter\" href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=377&amp;action=edit\">James Phillips Salas<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>since He was a little boy,<br \/>\na somber maturity lurked beneath Him,<br \/>\nperpetually depressed yet rarely dysfunctional,<br \/>\nHe perceived joy unlike<br \/>\nthe unadulterated fantasies of his peers.<\/p>\n<p>He never knew happiness without pain following<br \/>\nclose behind, He never knew pleasure without<br \/>\nloss dragging her red high-heels ever closer to His heart<\/p>\n<p>a wintered hurt it was seeing their tear<br \/>\nstreaked faces lying lugubriously like litter<\/p>\n<p>as good as dead:<\/p>\n<p>still walking, wanting, worldly, but absent.<\/p>\n<p>withdrawn from reality they plagued Him<br \/>\nwith haunting memories of pain, rage, anger, fear.<\/p>\n<p>all He knows is empty pleasure, perverted desire, reluctant comfort<br \/>\nin cold arms, success here, failure there until all that is left<br \/>\nresembles a house full of nothing, a decaying heart.<\/p>\n<p>His leaves turn as fertile heat escapes.<br \/>\nonly now on this april evening does Love find him.<br \/>\nhis heart hammers, hitting harder, now the Pain is Joy.<br \/>\nwarm death grips his body, his only desire<br \/>\nsince he was a little boy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by James Phillips Salas since He was a little boy, a somber maturity lurked beneath Him, perpetually depressed yet rarely dysfunctional, He perceived joy unlike the unadulterated fantasies of his peers. He never knew happiness without pain following close behind, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/nail-biter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-edition","category-previous-editions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}