{"id":6791,"date":"2014-03-28T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=6791"},"modified":"2014-03-28T14:14:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T18:14:30","slug":"rhythm-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/rhythm-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhythm of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/RhythmofLife.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6976\" alt=\"RhythmofLife\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/RhythmofLife.jpg\" width=\"585\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/RhythmofLife.jpg 585w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/RhythmofLife-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/RhythmofLife-580x580.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Silence in me<\/p>\n<p>as my eyes open<\/p>\n<p>to a world,<\/p>\n<p>to a life<\/p>\n<p>that I struggle<\/p>\n<p>to make better,<\/p>\n<p>so that I might finally<\/p>\n<p>taste the breath of freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Cold am I<\/p>\n<p>as each day melts<\/p>\n<p>into velvet dark,<\/p>\n<p>and silence is all I know.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s only when<\/p>\n<p>I hear<\/p>\n<p>the rhythm of life,<\/p>\n<p>the flow of expression<\/p>\n<p>that pour from my speakers<\/p>\n<p>that creates my heart.<\/p>\n<p>I can feel once more.<\/p>\n<p>I can know myself again.<\/p>\n<p>Pulse after pulse,<\/p>\n<p>step by step,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m alive<\/p>\n<p>with a beating heart.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that I fear<\/p>\n<p>are those who do not<\/p>\n<p>understand the music,<\/p>\n<p>and if they succeed<\/p>\n<p>to silence my heart<\/p>\n<p>that strongly beats<\/p>\n<p>within my chest,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll know nothing.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll feel nothing.<\/p>\n<p>All I will have<\/p>\n<p>is silence<\/p>\n<p>within me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silence in me<\/p>\n<p>as my eyes open<\/p>\n<p>to a world,<\/p>\n<p>to a life<\/p>\n<p>that I struggle<\/p>\n<p>to make better,<\/p>\n<p>so that I might finally<\/p>\n<p>taste the breath of freedom.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":6976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,218,219,199],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6791"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6979,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6791\/revisions\/6979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}