{"id":12180,"date":"2019-11-27T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=12180"},"modified":"2021-01-09T08:20:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T13:20:23","slug":"12180","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2019\/11\/27\/12180\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Snapshot: Deep Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loud voices, outspoken personalities.<br \/>\nThe glimmering attraction of success all around us.<\/p>\n<p>Seems as though there is only one<br \/>\nright path to take in this infinite world.<br \/>\nOne right path for people to be impressed by me.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12181\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 353px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-12181\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_3436.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_3436.jpg 640w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_3436-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><em>\u00a0Snoqualmie Falls, Washington<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But is that what I want people to be?<br \/>\nImpressive should feel good, but it feels empty.<br \/>\nImpressive should foster change, but it falls short.<\/p>\n<p>Impress. Inspire. Impressed. Inspired.<br \/>\nIronic, how similar and interchangeably,<br \/>\nthese words are used on the surface.<\/p>\n<p>But how can people be inspired by someone<br \/>\nwho follows the one set path to success.<\/p>\n<p>How can people be inspired by someone<br \/>\nwho stays in shallow waters and<br \/>\ndoes not explore uncontrollable waves.<\/p>\n<p>I fall into the spotlight of success<br \/>\nand feel its withdrawals.<br \/>\nImpressive people fade away.<br \/>\nInspiration leaves a legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loud voices, outspoken personalities. The glimmering attraction of success all around us. Seems as though there is only one right path to take in this infinite world. One right path for people to be impressed by me. But is that what I want people to be? Impressive should feel good, but it feels empty. Impressive [&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\/12180"}],"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=12180"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15099,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12180\/revisions\/15099"}],"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=12180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}