{"id":1316,"date":"2021-01-28T09:47:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T17:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2021-01-28T09:47:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T17:47:32","slug":"poem-word-cage-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/?p=1316","title":{"rendered":"Poem: &#8220;Word Cage&#8221; (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2764872107\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/track=3912379487\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/matthewsrosin.bandcamp.com\/album\/singing-is-contagious\">Singing Is Contagious by Matthew S. Rosin<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<pre style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\">You thought you knew it all, so you clung to the name.\nYou thought you knew it all, so you clung to the name.\nYou thought you knew it all, so you clung to the name.\nNow you\u2019re trapped in your word cage.\n\nAre you listening for the sounds that don\u2019t fit your scheme?\nAre you listening for the pleas that undercut your dream?\nYou thought you knew it all, so you clung to the name.\nNow you\u2019re locked away in your word cage.\n\nWhen a syllable varies, do you cut it away?\nDo you take hold of the tongue and beat it into place?\nYou thought you knew it all, so you clung to the name.\nNow your children are dying in your word cage.<\/pre>\n<p><em>Published as lyrics for Matthew S. Rosin\u2019s <strong>Singing Is Contagious<\/strong> EP, 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singing Is Contagious by Matthew S. Rosin You thought you knew it all, so you clung to the name. You thought you knew it all, so you clung to the name. You thought you knew it all, so you clung to the name. Now you\u2019re trapped in your word cage. Are you listening for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/?p=1316\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poem: &#8220;Word Cage&#8221; (2020)<\/span> <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":[99,14],"tags":[102,19,103],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-poetry-lyrics","tag-meristem-music","tag-poetry","tag-singing-is-contagious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1317,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthewsrosin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}