{"id":4622,"date":"2011-08-11T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T10:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=4622"},"modified":"2011-08-11T06:49:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T10:49:00","slug":"deferred-dream-may-not-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=4622","title":{"rendered":"Deferred Dream May Not Pay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(With apologies to fans of Langston Hughes&#8217;, <a title=\"Dream Deferred\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=1296\" target=\"_blank\">A Dream Deferred<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>What happens to a deferred dream you worry won&#8217;t pay?<br \/>\nDoes it just sprout wings and fly away?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it digs a hole into the ground<br \/>\nAnd lies there quietly, making nary a sound?<\/p>\n<p>Does it get angry and lash out,<br \/>\nOr just sit in a corner and pout?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it slides into the night,<br \/>\nOr just fades out of sight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(With apologies to fans of Langston Hughes&#8217;, A Dream Deferred) What happens to a deferred dream you worry won&#8217;t pay? Does it just sprout wings and fly away? Perhaps it digs a hole into the ground And lies there quietly, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=4622\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[519],"tags":[694,695,141,266,378],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4622"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4662,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions\/4662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}