{"id":285,"date":"2007-11-21T21:37:40","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T21:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/im-alive-i-believe-in-everything\/"},"modified":"2007-11-21T21:46:56","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T21:46:56","slug":"im-alive-i-believe-in-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/im-alive-i-believe-in-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Alive, I Believe in Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<pre>\r\nI'm Alive, I Believe In Everything\r\n\r\nSelf. Brotherhood. God. Zeus. Communism.\r\nCapitalism. Buddha. Vinyl records.\r\nBaseball. Ink. Trees. Cures for disease.\r\nSaltwater. Literature. Walking. Waking.\r\nArguments. Decisions. Ambiguity. Absolutes.\r\nPresence. Absence. Positive and Negative.\r\nEmpathy. Apathy. Sympathy and entropy.\r\nVerbs are necessary. So are nouns.\r\nEmpty skies. Dark vacuums of night.\r\nVisions. Revisions. Innocence.\r\nI've seen All the empty spaces yet to be filled.\r\nI've heard All of the sounds that will collect\r\nat the end of the world.\r\nAnd the silence that follows.\r\n\r\nI'm alive, I believe in everything\r\nI'm alive, I believe in it all.\r\n\r\nWaves lapping on the shore.\r\nSkies on fire at sunset.\r\nOld men dancing on the streets.\r\nParadox and possibility.\r\nSense and sensibility.\r\nCold logic and half truth.\r\nFinal steps and first impressions.\r\nFools and fine intelligence.\r\nChaos and clean horizons.\r\nVague notions and concrete certainty.\r\nOptimism in the face of adversity.\r\n\r\nI'm alive, I believe in everything\r\nI'm alive, I believe in it all.\r\n\r\n\r\n                by Lesley Choyce \r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Alive, I Believe In Everything Self. Brotherhood. God. Zeus. Communism. Capitalism. Buddha. Vinyl records. Baseball. Ink. Trees. Cures for disease. Saltwater. Literature. Walking. Waking. Arguments. Decisions. Ambiguity. Absolutes. Presence. Absence. Positive and Negative. Empathy. Apathy. Sympathy and entropy. Verbs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/im-alive-i-believe-in-everything\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,382,407],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lesley_choyce","tag-personal","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}