{"id":353,"date":"2006-01-27T17:09:10","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T00:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=353"},"modified":"2006-01-27T18:02:30","modified_gmt":"2006-01-28T01:02:30","slug":"music-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2006\/01\/music-box\/","title":{"rendered":"life inside the music box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reginaspektor.com\/\">Regina Spektor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Life inside the music box ain&#8217;t easy<br \/>\nThe mallets hit the gears are always turning<br \/>\nAnd everyone inside the mechanism<br \/>\nIs yearning<br \/>\nTo get out<\/p>\n<p>And sing another melody completely<br \/>\nSo different from the one they&#8217;re always singing<br \/>\nI close my eyes and think that I have found me<br \/>\nBut then I feel mortality surround me<br \/>\nI want to sing another melody<br \/>\nSo different from the one I always sing<\/p>\n<p>But when I do the dishes<br \/>\nI run the water very very very hot<br \/>\nAnd then I fill the sink to the top with bubbles of soap<br \/>\nAnd then I set all the bottle caps I own afloat<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s the greatest voyage in the history of plastic<br \/>\nAnd then I slip my hands in and start to make waves<br \/>\nAnd then I dip my tongue in and take a taste<br \/>\nIt tastes like soap but it doesn&#8217;t really taste like soap<br \/>\nAnd then I lower in my whole mouth and take a gulp<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and start to feel mortality surround me<br \/>\nI close my eyes and think that I have found me<br \/>\nBut life inside the music box ain&#8217;t easy<br \/>\nThe mallets hit the gears are always turning<br \/>\nAnd every one inside the mechanism<br \/>\nIs yearning to get out<br \/>\nIs yearning to get out<br \/>\nIs yearning to get out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Regina Spektor Life inside the music box ain&#8217;t easy The mallets hit the gears are always turning And everyone inside the mechanism Is yearning To get out And sing another melody completely So&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}