{"id":1051,"date":"2005-06-02T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-03T04:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltdrivebetty.com\/wyzwmnsworld\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2010-09-29T18:31:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T01:31:03","slug":"carnival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/?p=1051","title":{"rendered":"Carnival&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\"><span style=\"color:#ffff99;\">I&#8217;ve walked these streets<br \/>a virtual stage<br \/>it seemed to me<br \/>make up on their faces<br \/>actors took their<br \/>places next to me<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve walked these streets<br \/>in a carnival<br \/>of sights to see<br \/>all the cheap thrill seekers<br \/>the vendors and the dealers<br \/>they crowded around me<\/p>\n<p>have I been blind<br \/>have I been lost<br \/>inside my self and<br \/>my own mind<br \/>hypnotized<br \/>mesmerized by what my eyes have seen?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve walked these streets<br \/>in a spectacle of wealth and poverty<br \/>in the diamond markets<br \/>the scarlet welcome carpet<br \/>that they just rolled out for me<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve walked these streets<br \/>in the mad house asylum<br \/>they can be<br \/>where a wild eyed misfit prophet<br \/>on a traffic island stopped<br \/>and he raved of saving me<\/p>\n<p>have I been blind<br \/>have I been lost<br \/>inside my self and<br \/>my own mind<br \/>hypnotized<br \/>mesmerized<br \/>by what my eyes have seen?<\/p>\n<p>have I been wrong<br \/>have I been wise<br \/>to shut my eyes<br \/>and play along<br \/>hypnotized<br \/>paralyzed<br \/>by what my eyes have found<br \/>by what my eyes have seen<br \/>what they have seen?<\/p>\n<p>have I been blind<br \/>have I been lost<br \/>inside my self and<br \/>my own mind<br \/>hypnotized<br \/>mesmerized<br \/>by what my eyes have found<br \/>in that great street carnival<br \/><\/span><span style=\"color:#ffff99;\">in that carnival?<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\"> <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:verdana;color:#99ff99;\"><strong>~Natalie Merchant<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve walked these streetsa virtual stageit seemed to memake up on their facesactors took theirplaces next to me I&#8217;ve walked these streetsin a carnivalof sights to seeall the cheap thrill seekersthe vendors and the dealersthey crowded around me have I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/?p=1051\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\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-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5777,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/5777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}