{"id":418,"date":"2007-01-26T11:33:02","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T16:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/01\/26\/the-big-empty\/"},"modified":"2007-01-26T18:14:08","modified_gmt":"2007-01-26T23:14:08","slug":"the-big-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/01\/26\/the-big-empty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Empty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>[Footnote: <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>go home<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>this is not home<br \/>\nthis is where you stay<br \/>\nin the sidebars of existence<br \/>\ncreating the hells<br \/>\nthe purgatories<br \/>\nthe limbos<br \/>\nthe rules<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>there is nothing &#8220;here&#8221;<br \/>\nbut your ego creating all this<br \/>\nand making it as seductive<br \/>\nand difficult<br \/>\nas possible<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>this poem is here<br \/>\nbecause you<br \/>\nput it here<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;here&#8221; is here<br \/>\nbecause you<br \/>\nput it here<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>want to win the lottery?<br \/>\njust do it<br \/>\nbut then what?<br \/>\nare you now happy?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>look at that<br \/>\nthing<br \/>\n(whatever you have created to look at in this moment)<br \/>\nwhy have you put it there<br \/>\nand are you paying attention?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>your ego<br \/>\nruled by faith<br \/>\nhas put you &#8220;here&#8221;<br \/>\nand keeps you here<br \/>\nby distracting you<br \/>\nwith clues that<br \/>\nthis &#8220;here&#8221; really exists<br \/>\nand is important to you<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>only knowledge<br \/>\ncan release you<br \/>\nand return you home to<br \/>\nthe Big Full] <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. [Footnote: go home this is not home this is where you stay in the sidebars of existence creating the hells the purgatories the limbos the rules there is nothing &#8220;here&#8221; but your ego creating all this and making it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/01\/26\/the-big-empty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}