{"id":11678,"date":"2019-10-30T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=11678"},"modified":"2021-01-09T08:37:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T13:37:19","slug":"the-poetry-snapshot-instructions-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2019\/10\/30\/the-poetry-snapshot-instructions-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Snapshot: Instructions for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11679\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 307px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11679 \" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/photo-e1572367548429-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/photo-e1572367548429-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/photo-e1572367548429-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/photo-e1572367548429.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Anderson Lake, Washington<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Manuals to assemble furniture.<br \/>\nGuides to care for pets.<br \/>\nDirections to wash your clothes.<br \/>\nRecipes to cook your food.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike everything else,<br \/>\nyour life does not come with instructions.<br \/>\nNo singular timeline to follow,<br \/>\nor levels to unlock like a game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Easy enough, your life is yours to live.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But it&#8217;s easy to get lost in freedom.<br \/>\nWhen you were younger,<br \/>\nthe hardest choices were in Choose your Own Adventure books.<br \/>\nNow, every decision becomes a spiraling void,<br \/>\nand you become stuck at every fork in the road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So you put your head down.<br \/>\nYou forget about the sunrise in the horizon,<br \/>\nand just see the stone beneath your feet.<br \/>\nYou take one step to a dead end,<br \/>\nand another to a cliff.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, how I wish my life came with instructions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manuals to assemble furniture. Guides to care for pets. Directions to wash your clothes. Recipes to cook your food. Unlike everything else, your life does not come with instructions. No singular timeline to follow, or levels to unlock like a game. Easy enough, your life is yours to live. But it&#8217;s easy to get lost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2205,"featured_media":13473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,15,1372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11678"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15104,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11678\/revisions\/15104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}