{"id":14117,"date":"2021-10-31T16:36:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T20:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=14117"},"modified":"2021-11-01T16:55:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:55:04","slug":"an-unforgiving-blossom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=14117","title":{"rendered":"An unforgiving blossom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14119 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/1031-955x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/1031-955x1024.jpg 955w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/1031-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/1031-768x823.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/1031-1433x1536.jpg 1433w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/1031-1910x2048.jpg 1910w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/1031-624x669.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I leave this out in view for everyone (but mostly me) to take note of.<\/p>\n<p>From a certain angle, with the light reflecting off it in a certain way,<\/p>\n<p>you can see the blossom of an abandoned dream.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s wilted and shriveled, yet the vibrancy of the pedals still pricks my conscience.<\/p>\n<p>And it taunts me to carry on and not leave uncultivated<\/p>\n<p>the seeds of my madness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Chris George<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>October 2021<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I leave this out in view for everyone (but mostly me) to take note of. From a certain angle, with the light reflecting off it in a certain way, you can see the blossom of an abandoned dream. It\u2019s wilted and shriveled, yet the vibrancy of the pedals still pricks my conscience. And it taunts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14117"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14133,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14117\/revisions\/14133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}