{"id":4413,"date":"2016-06-03T14:49:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T04:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/?p=4413"},"modified":"2016-06-03T14:49:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T04:49:12","slug":"an-ode-to-p______","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/2016\/blog\/family\/an-ode-to-p______\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ode to P______"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh to the beautiful wretched spawns of loins that bleed us of patience, sanity and money.<\/p>\n<p>Kick us when we&#8217;re down with their opposing agendas and indifferent attitudes.<\/p>\n<p>Mock us with a severity that rivals our enemies while they turn the daggers of our own words back towards our hearts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Look<\/strong> \u2013 above the horizon, a cuddle has risen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen<\/strong> \u2013 on the wind, the sweetest words ever spoken have been uttered.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch<\/strong> \u2013 on their faces, as the seemingly mundane transforms into an elation of discovery.<\/p>\n<p>A mutual amnesia sets in as we quickly forgive and forget all the transgressions from mere moments before.<\/p>\n<p>Muck and dirt.<\/p>\n<p>Wash and rinse.<\/p>\n<p>The cycle continues.<\/p>\n<p>In the end,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>A comfy pair of jeans with rips, worn knees,<\/p>\n<p>And some mystery stains that won&#8217;t wash out.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Jason Lee Shanks (2016)<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4413\" data-postid=\"4413\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4413 themify_builder\">\n\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh to the beautiful wretched spawns of loins that bleed us of patience, sanity and money. Kick us when we&#8217;re down with their opposing agendas and indifferent attitudes. Mock us with a severity that rivals our enemies while they turn the daggers of our own words back towards our hearts. Look \u2013 above the horizon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,13],"tags":[28,25],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4413"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4419,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions\/4419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}