{"id":535,"date":"2017-06-09T20:46:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T01:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/?p=535"},"modified":"2017-06-09T20:48:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T01:48:39","slug":"flooded-by-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/2017\/06\/flooded-by-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooded by Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0012-300x199.jpg?resize=300%2C199\" alt=\"DSC_0012\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0012.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0012.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0012.jpg?resize=1024%2C681&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0012.jpg?w=1160&amp;ssl=1 1160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/DSC_0012.jpg?w=1740&amp;ssl=1 1740w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before I wisened up and could call myself mature<br \/>\nBefore I could tell apart love from a crush<br \/>\nI scribbled the tribulations of my day<br \/>\nIn the captivity of a forever-secret journal<\/p>\n<p>Years flew by, and I could not contain time<br \/>\nMemories overflowed spilling here and there<br \/>\nNotebooks filled with coffee stains and words<br \/>\nTear-stained pages wrinkled in a glorious show<\/p>\n<p>From heartbreaks from joy and sorrow alike<br \/>\nTo getaway escapades and faraway hideouts<br \/>\nMy life sprawled like a giant Banyan tree<br \/>\nNotebooks no longer could contain my heart&#8217;s outreach<\/p>\n<p>Memories flooded my heart<br \/>\nWithout memory-proofing, tried vacuuming<br \/>\nBut memories spread their wings as I aged<br \/>\nDay by day, trip by trip<\/p>\n<p>As I tread forward in life<br \/>\nWith an already-full jar of memories<br \/>\nMy life\u2019s memory jar will continue to spill<br \/>\nI let the river flow and drench all in its way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I wisened up and could call myself mature Before I could tell apart love from a crush I scribbled the tribulations of my day In the captivity of a forever-secret journal Years flew by, and I could not contain time Memories overflowed spilling here and there Notebooks filled with coffee stains and words Tear-stained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[36],"tags":[75,53],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kaFb-8D","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookofdreams.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}