{"id":25,"date":"1998-07-05T00:17:42","date_gmt":"1998-07-05T04:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greasymonkey.net\/MonkeyBLOG\/?p=25"},"modified":"2008-07-05T00:32:49","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T04:32:49","slug":"steven-d-larson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Steven D. Larson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve says to the Monkey, &#8220;I&#8217;ve never submitted my poetry to anyone. It might be horrible. Anyway, here it goes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deeper Than My Thoughts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Passion for truth, passion for achievement<br \/>\nThus I am taken from where I am needed<br \/>\nSometimes there is pain deeper than myself<br \/>\nWith the knowledge of this great loss<\/p>\n<p>A knight on a crusade, I fight for my beliefs<br \/>\nMany battles are fought with success<br \/>\nBut there is this light in the distance<br \/>\nThe beacon of happiness burns bright on both ports<\/p>\n<p>A certain satisfaction tainted with sadness<br \/>\nI love both of these lands, but one I call home<br \/>\nGlory for home, it is not the reason, I believe I am right<br \/>\nAnd I succeed with righteousness, but it cannot fill the gap<\/p>\n<p>One truth discovered, one known deeper again<br \/>\nAll the fight, all the pain, all the drive, all the lost time<br \/>\nForever she is there, and therefore so am I<br \/>\nFor without her, time would end<\/p>\n<p>Steven D. Larsen<\/p>\n<p>The Monkey nods and says to Steve, &#8220;I Feeel your pain.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve says to the Monkey, &#8220;I&#8217;ve never submitted my poetry to anyone. It might be horrible. Anyway, here it goes. Deeper Than My Thoughts Passion for truth, passion for achievement Thus I am taken from where I am needed Sometimes there is pain deeper than myself With the knowledge of this great loss A knight &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/?p=25\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Steven D. Larson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":590,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7SmAb-p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fosterjohnson.com\/POETRY\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}