I used to be a single match,
\nstrike me and I burn a bit.
\nNow I’m an Aim-N-Flame,
\nand if you pull my trigger,
\nI’ll burn down your house.<\/p>\n
Most-honoured Girlfriend wrote that in high school. I rather like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I used to be a single match, strike me and I burn a bit. Now I’m an Aim-N-Flame, and if you pull my trigger, I’ll burn down your house. Most-honoured Girlfriend wrote that in high school. I rather like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73iP8-c","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":686,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=686","url_meta":{"origin":12,"position":0},"title":"I wonder what it means…","date":"11\/8\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"... but at least I am writing again. I think my prose has always been stronger than my poetry, but both need the exercise. This feels inspired by American Psycho, but it really just came out of nothing. -- You wake up because your head has a heartbeat. The throbbing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Ennui"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":963,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=963","url_meta":{"origin":12,"position":1},"title":"Silent minority","date":"3\/10\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This article I don't care much about, and I think Huffington Post can be overboard on the liberal tip, but this is a solid point. I've always been amused at the idea that a religious person can say that an atheist will burn in hell as a result of their\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Ennui"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1064,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=1064","url_meta":{"origin":12,"position":2},"title":"Fucked up, now I’m down.","date":"8\/19\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I know I fucked up, but what can I do? I never got used to loving you. Watching options walk the street Even with you, I was incomplete. Now in empty rooms, I sit and dream Of what we were and could have been. \"It is not fair,\" I hear\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Poetry"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3006,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=3006","url_meta":{"origin":12,"position":3},"title":"Gethsemane","date":"11\/9\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I only want to say if there is a way Take this cup away from me For I don't want to taste its poison Feel it burn me, I have changed I'm not as sure as when we started Then I was inspired, now I'm sad and tired Listen, surely\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Ennui"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":220,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=220","url_meta":{"origin":12,"position":4},"title":"No direction","date":"11\/10\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"My problems are three: 1. I have what the polite refer to as a \"friendly face,\" and what the impolite refer to as \"the visage of a warped Cabbage Patch Kid who's grown up in the slums of Beirut and pulled out all of its yarn hair.\" Somehow, despite this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Best of the Buddha"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}