{"id":2472,"date":"2026-09-28T21:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T21:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2026-09-29T15:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T15:45:23","slug":"whats-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/?p=2472","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s a Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What\u2019s a life with no hits, just misses?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">missed my dreams time after time <br \/>struggled to survive life&#8217;s meaningless grind <br \/>no broadsheet headlines with my name <br \/>missed my one shot for fortune and fame <br \/>always settled for less, a bouquet of flops <br \/>too timid to scale those high mountain tops <br \/>never found a river that flowed just right <br \/>constantly dragged down by an ebbing tide <br \/>a malcontent in a life misspent <br \/>stuck on a journey without an end<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s a life with no hits, just misses? missed my dreams time after time struggled to survive life&#8217;s meaningless grind no broadsheet headlines with my name missed my one shot for fortune and fame always settled for less, a bouquet of flops too timid to scale those high mountain tops never found a river that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-poems"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emagines.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}