{"id":16947,"date":"2021-04-18T20:08:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T00:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=16947"},"modified":"2021-04-18T20:08:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T00:08:50","slug":"the-right-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2021\/04\/18\/the-right-block\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are times when I have to force myself<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not to taste the sound of abandoned thoughts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Distractions that distort creative wealth<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes keep newness from changing to rot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I remember when I was able to\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keep the words changing and stable because<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bumps that come with the world were ones I knew.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I wish the poem was done when I was,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And not after my fingers squirmed to find<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delete, eraser, the ability<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To seek solace while striking through my\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Careful meaning etched with a pen that sees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am counting all the lines I wrote in,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hoping I can find an answer within.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when I have to force myself Not to taste the sound of abandoned thoughts.\u00a0 Distractions that distort creative wealth Sometimes keep newness from changing to rot. I remember when I was able to\u00a0 Keep the words changing and stable because Bumps that come with the world were ones I knew. I wish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2229,"featured_media":15301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16947"}],"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\/2229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16948,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16947\/revisions\/16948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}