{"id":2467,"date":"2010-09-24T23:20:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T06:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2010-09-24T23:20:23","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T06:20:23","slug":"a-loosing-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/2010\/a-loosing-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"A Loosing Bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If I bet on Humanity<br \/>\nI would be betting on a dream<br \/>\nAn idea that never truly formed<br \/>\nI would be betting on hope<br \/>\nOn thin air<br \/>\nGrasping for the wisps<br \/>\nOf a shadow slipping away<br \/>\nThe half drawn portrait<br \/>\nof a beautiful woman<br \/>\nNot finished, never finished<br \/>\nBetting on an abstract thing<br \/>\nThat could have been<br \/>\nBut never was<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If I bet on Humanity<br \/>\nI would be a poor woman<br \/>\nWith empty pockets<br \/>\nBut a heart full of hope<br \/>\nLeft with nothing but everything<br \/>\nBetting on the underdog<br \/>\nKnowing it will loose<br \/>\nBut hoping<br \/>\nOnly hoping<br \/>\nThey will pull through in the end<br \/>\nBut never do<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If I didn\u2019t bet on Humanity<br \/>\nI wouldn\u2019t be who I am<br \/>\nI would be rooting for the winner<br \/>\nThe full formed idea<br \/>\nBetting on some surety<br \/>\nBut that isn\u2019t me<br \/>\nI bet on the loser<br \/>\nIn the face of failure<br \/>\nHoping they will make it out<br \/>\nOf the hole they dug<br \/>\nThe shadow of what could be<br \/>\nHoping in vain for victory<br \/>\nBut victory never came<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I wouldn\u2019t be who I am<br \/>\nIf I didn\u2019t bet on Humanity<br \/>\nBecause I am humanity<br \/>\nI am the child of thousands<br \/>\nThe idea not yet formed<br \/>\nI am betting on us<br \/>\nOn me and who I can be<br \/>\nBut never turned out to be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I bet on Humanity I would be betting on a dream An idea that never truly formed I would be betting on hope On thin air Grasping for the wisps Of a shadow slipping away The half drawn portrait of a beautiful woman Not finished, never finished Betting on an abstract thing That could [&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":[1297,1305,567,1306,1307,1308],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467"}],"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=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2468,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions\/2468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}