{"id":1517,"date":"2011-06-23T19:08:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T18:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2011-06-23T19:08:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T18:08:22","slug":"it-all-depends-on-what-youre-used-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1517","title":{"rendered":"It All Depends on What You&#8217;re Used To"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I shall reverse everything.<br \/>\nDie before I am born,<br \/>\nread the last page of a book<br \/>\nand forget the beginning.<br \/>\nSee the world from the other side.<br \/>\nTake off my glasses when I get up,<br \/>\nand put them on when I retire.<br \/>\nExplore the end of time<br \/>\nand come back to creation.<\/p>\n<p>In other words mix myself up,<br \/>\nsay goodby before I say hello,<br \/>\nvisit the tree before it becomes the table,<br \/>\nlive with my words before I choose them,<br \/>\nread the poem before it is written,<br \/>\ndeal with my deeds before they\u2019re conceived.<br \/>\nHow much I could avoid,<br \/>\nundo!<br \/>\nForget the future and live toward the past.<br \/>\nBut perhaps that is what I do.<br \/>\nI give up before I begin,<br \/>\nform opinions without knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shall reverse everything. Die before I am born, read the last page of a book and forget the beginning. See the world from the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=1517\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It All Depends on What You&#8217;re Used To<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-index-of-all-poems","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}