{"id":1787,"date":"2010-04-19T21:27:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T04:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2010-04-19T21:27:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T04:27:53","slug":"otherside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/2010\/otherside\/","title":{"rendered":"Otherside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bukowski was right<br \/>\nWith good fortune<br \/>\nComes stagnation<br \/>\nI always thought<br \/>\nWhen fortunes comes<br \/>\nKnocking on my doorstep<br \/>\nI would open the door<br \/>\nGreet her as a friend<br \/>\nAnd invite her in<br \/>\nInto my life<br \/>\nInto my heart<br \/>\nFor a long time to come<br \/>\nBut now I find myself<br \/>\nStanding on the otherside<br \/>\nOf that door<br \/>\nI hear her knocking<br \/>\nCalling out for me<br \/>\nBut I just stand there<br \/>\nStaring at the thin wall<br \/>\nBetween me and my dreams<br \/>\nI pick my head up<br \/>\nTo stare at the door<br \/>\nI am no longer sure<br \/>\nThat what is on the otherside<br \/>\nIs what I want<br \/>\nShe calls and beckons<br \/>\nAsking for an answer<br \/>\nBut I just turn<br \/>\nAnd walk the other way<br \/>\nLeaving fortune to it\u2019s own ends<br \/>\nMine hasn\u2019t come yet<br \/>\nI am not ready<br \/>\nTo open that door<br \/>\nMaybe someday<br \/>\nWhen I become tired<br \/>\nOf the suffering of the world<br \/>\nBut I know<br \/>\nThis is were I belong<br \/>\nWith a pen in my hand<br \/>\nAnd a burden on my shoulders<br \/>\nI walk away<br \/>\nFrom destiny on my doorstep<br \/>\nWaiting on the otherside<br \/>\nNo I am not<br \/>\nAbandoning my dreams<br \/>\nNot at all<br \/>\nI have to chase them<br \/>\nIf I don\u2019t now<br \/>\nI never will<br \/>\nAnd what good<br \/>\nIs an unearned prize<br \/>\nThe door remains<br \/>\nAs it always was<br \/>\nLeaving destiny<br \/>\nOn one side<br \/>\nAnd me on the<br \/>\notherside<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bukowski was right With good fortune Comes stagnation I always thought When fortunes comes Knocking on my doorstep I would open the door Greet her as a friend And invite her in Into my life Into my heart For a long time to come But now I find myself Standing on the otherside Of that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[958,229,962,960,961,2319,959],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}