{"id":683,"date":"2024-11-21T19:24:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T19:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writerspeak.org\/?p=683"},"modified":"2025-04-02T09:57:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T09:57:25","slug":"not-van-gogh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.writerspeak.org\/index.php\/2024\/11\/21\/not-van-gogh\/","title":{"rendered":"NOT Van Gogh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hiding in the shadows with the voices <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>punching, trembling- echoing all over;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>painting and scratching on the dirty dirty walls,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>cutting off my ear for <em>WHY! WHY AM I NOT BEING HEARD!?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I haven\u2019t come here to be remembered only after my death.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Come to think of it- I wish not be remembered at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who are important to me, already <em>know<\/em> the real me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I\u2019m certain won\u2019t forget me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boy, that\u2019s more than enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I want- what I wish, dream and chase after\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is for that, which comes out of the ink of my pen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The written.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now<em> that <\/em>will remain carved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, in the hearts of beautiful people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I, for once- will live to see it happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For I don\u2019t want to be Kafka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I shan\u2019t want to be Galileo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I refuse to be Dickinson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I will NOT be&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vincent Van Gogh.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiding in the shadows with the voices punching, trembling- echoing all over; painting and scratching on the dirty dirty walls, cutting off my ear for WHY! WHY AM I NOT BEING HEARD!? I haven\u2019t come here to be remembered only after my death.&nbsp; Come to think of it- I wish not be remembered at all. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writerspeak.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writerspeak.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writerspeak.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writerspeak.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writerspeak.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.writerspeak.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/www.writerspeak.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writerspeak.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writerspeak.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writerspeak.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writerspeak.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}