{"id":7586,"date":"2014-10-03T08:30:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T12:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=7586"},"modified":"2014-10-13T23:23:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T03:23:55","slug":"gold-beyond-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/gold-beyond-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Beyond Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/GoldBeyondBlue_585x585.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8084\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/GoldBeyondBlue_585x585-580x580.jpg\" alt=\"GoldBeyondBlue_585x585\" width=\"580\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/GoldBeyondBlue_585x585-580x580.jpg 580w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/GoldBeyondBlue_585x585-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/GoldBeyondBlue_585x585.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world rolled up to his feet<br \/>\nlike a soft wave,<br \/>\nwaiting,<br \/>\nlistening,<br \/>\nand his words<br \/>\nwhisper across each crest.<br \/>\nAnd knowledge drifted,<br \/>\nbut as we sank in further<br \/>\ndid our feet touch bottom,<br \/>\nfeeling the jagged surface beneath,<br \/>\nflawed.<br \/>\nHe wanted the world.<br \/>\nHe wanted to connect,<br \/>\nbut he was alone,<br \/>\nhis heart shattered by betrayal.<br \/>\nAnd life played on in Drama.<br \/>\nLove triangles sang from above,<br \/>\nbut it was just her.<br \/>\nAnd she didn&#8217;t know it<br \/>\nfor punishment remained on her mind,<br \/>\nbut he was the good guy,<br \/>\nwanting to open the doors from within.<br \/>\nBut the world slammed them shut.<br \/>\nThe waves pulled back,<br \/>\nhissing from the lie told,<br \/>\nand he stood alone.<br \/>\nBut they stood with him<br \/>\nbuilding castles in the sand.<br \/>\nThey would not fall.<br \/>\nHe was king among giants.<br \/>\nTheir stars shined bright,<br \/>\nand he reached for the gold,<br \/>\nan Emmy beyond water.<br \/>\nAnd we wait,<br \/>\ndrift,<br \/>\nand wonder<br \/>\nwhat chapters unfold<br \/>\namong the lives<br \/>\nof those in<br \/>\n&#8220;The Newsroom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">1<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Melissa R. Mendelson is a published short story author and a self-published poet, whose work has been featured in The Outreach for Breast Health Foundation&#8217;s Anthology: Beyond Memories, Names in a Jar: A Collection of Poetry by 100 Contemporary American Poets, and Espresso Fiction: A Collection of Flash Fiction for the Average Joe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world rolled up to his feet<br \/>\nlike a soft wave,<br \/>\nwaiting,<br \/>\nlistening,<br \/>\nand his words<br \/>\nwhisper across each crest.<br \/>\nAnd knowledge drifted,<br \/>\nbut as we sank in further<br \/>\ndid our feet touch bottom,<br \/>\nfeeling the jagged surface beneath,<br \/>\nflawed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/gold-beyond-blue\/\">READ MORE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":8084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,219,199,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586"}],"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=7586"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8088,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7586\/revisions\/8088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}