{"id":3179,"date":"2018-07-10T11:51:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T19:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2018-07-10T11:51:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T19:51:57","slug":"just-wasting-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=3179","title":{"rendered":"Just Wasting Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just Wasting Time<\/p>\n<p>Sitting here thinking how time flies by.<br \/>\nWhen I was young time didn\u2019t fly.<br \/>\nBut now, before I know it.<br \/>\nThe day is gone. I couldn\u2019t slow it.<br \/>\nIf I could write my life in rhyme.<br \/>\nIt would probably be a real crime.<br \/>\nI would dwell on the good times.<br \/>\nPass over the bad. It doesn\u2019t rhyme.<br \/>\nMost anyone would do the same.<br \/>\nTo dwell on bad is really lame.<br \/>\nFor most, the past is always better.<br \/>\nBut, if you really stick to the letter.<br \/>\nLife is good at any time.<br \/>\nIt can also be bad. A real crime.<br \/>\nPretty much it is what you make it.<br \/>\nIf your negative, you can\u2019t fake it.<br \/>\nIf your positive things are better.<br \/>\nYou don\u2019t have to be a go getter.<br \/>\nJust be you. Your one of a kind.<br \/>\nOn with my dreaming, if you don\u2019t mind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-R.W. Johnson&#8212;&#8211;(2018)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just Wasting Time Sitting here thinking how time flies by. When I was young time didn\u2019t fly. But now, before I know it. The day is gone. I couldn\u2019t slow it. If I could write my life in rhyme. It would probably be a real crime. I would dwell on the good times. Pass over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=3179\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just Wasting Time<\/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":[27,16,29,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-factual","category-free-bird-poetry","category-life-lessons","category-nostalgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3180,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions\/3180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}