{"id":215,"date":"2022-10-18T00:04:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T00:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/?p=215"},"modified":"2022-10-27T06:38:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T06:38:56","slug":"drinking-for-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Drinking For The Past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve come from a world of hurt,<br>And I\u2019ve risen myself from the dirt,<br>But I live with constant bad memories,<br>And my mind likes to remind me,<br>Remind me of my pain,<br>And it\u2019s driving me slightly insane,<br>I just can\u2019t escape that place,<br>Hence why most nights I get shit faced,<br>Each night she goes to sleep,<br>My memories start to creep,<br>I start to feel all numb,<br>As I pour myself a double rum,<br>My mind does nothing but think,<br>Hence why I do nothing but drink,<br>I sit there and I sob,<br>Thinking of the life my mind has robbed,<br>I could have been someone I say,<br>Until I slur them words away,<br>My wife says she will never stop loving me,<br>But I\u2019m convinced she\u2019s just waiting to leave,<br>My wife just wants her husband to hold,<br>But instead my side of the bed gets cold,<br>I\u2019m a drinker\u2019s, drinker\u2019s son,<br>And my soul just wants to run,<br>I\u2019ve searched for years for answers I will never find,<br>I\u2019m stuck in a corner, uptight and unable to unwind,<br>I laugh and I smile all throughout the day,<br>But the mask gets taken off when I\u2019m on my own and locked away,<br>I\u2019m too scared to end my days,<br>Well, I am now anyway,<br>I try to forget everything, as I pour myself another,<br>I guess some of us in life are just meant to suffer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wrote on 18\/05\/2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve come from a world of hurt,And I\u2019ve risen myself from the dirt,But I live with constant bad memories,And my mind likes to remind me,Remind me of my pain,And it\u2019s driving me slightly insane,I just can\u2019t escape that place,Hence why most nights I get shit faced,Each night she goes to sleep,My memories start to creep,I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}