{"id":3431,"date":"2019-12-22T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/?p=3431"},"modified":"2019-12-19T21:28:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T01:28:53","slug":"a-sudden-awareness-of-the-existence-of-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/2019\/12\/22\/a-sudden-awareness-of-the-existence-of-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sudden Awareness of the Existence of Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faces emerge in the steam. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have been trying to pick out a pattern.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trying to decide what is most crucial<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To our pleasure in the experience of beauty\u2013<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The whole structure, or the details?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are some things that are so beautiful<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can\u2019t remove your gaze from them,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like an equation you can\u2019t solve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have never been much of a mathematician\u2013<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I have always looked too long.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My awe was great and intimate.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet again, in my drab gray room,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Old water stains on the walls,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My feeling of being alive in no way diminished,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I can\u2019t help but think that beautiful means<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nothing. Not as long as<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That white van is parked on the corner.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><a class=\"owner-name truncate\" title=\"Go to Tracy Byrnes's photostream\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/platinum\/\" data-track=\"attributionNameClick\">Tracy Byrnes<\/a> on Flikr<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Faces emerge in the steam. I have been trying to pick out a pattern. Trying to decide what is most crucial To our pleasure &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_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":"A Sudden Awareness of the Existence of Evil by Stapelton Nash\n\n\"I have never been much of a mathematician\u2013\nSo I have always looked too long.\"\n\n","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[166,176,177,184,213,262,244,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-human-rights","category-humanity-of-it-all","category-justice","category-poetry","category-police-brutality","category-tending-joy","category-the-white-house-occupant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/8844088_ab1e24123b_w.jpg?fit=400%2C320&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3431"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3533,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions\/3533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}