{"id":5235,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5235"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-choking-grip","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-choking-grip\/","title":{"rendered":"The Choking Grip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Choking Grip<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on October 28, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nWhen flowing lines are locked inside your head<br \/>\nAnd even love cannot provide the key<br \/>\nPerhaps the voice inside your mind is dead<br \/>\nYour inner eye has lost the power to see<\/p>\n<p>With doorless walls erected round your heart<br \/>\nThe rhythm you rely on can&#8217;t be heard<br \/>\nA silent dread is pulling you apart<br \/>\nAn unseen fog obscuring every word<\/p>\n<p>But in your dreams, you know your soul still flies<br \/>\nIts flightless wings still carry you away<br \/>\nAwake you&#8217;ve lost the freedom of the skies<br \/>\nA skulking beast with nothing left to say<\/p>\n<p>A strangled hope replaces every breath<br \/>\nThe choking grip of slow poetic death<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Choking Grip by cricketjeff on October 28, 2011.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved When flowing lines are locked inside your head And even love cannot provide the key Perhaps the voice inside your mind is dead Your inner eye has lost the power to see With doorless walls erected round your heart The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5235","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6273,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5235\/revisions\/6273"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}