{"id":498,"date":"2005-11-03T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=498"},"modified":"2005-11-03T15:47:40","modified_gmt":"2005-11-03T20:47:40","slug":"avarice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"&#8211; Avarice &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8211; Avarice &#8211;<\/strong><br \/>\nA sort-of poetic something by Phil &#8220;CrazedPenguin&#8221; Gorski<\/p>\n<p>But what of your simple goals and dreams?<br \/>\nI dream of big things, many things, my things<br \/>\nLife most certainly isn&#8217;t always as it seems<br \/>\nAnd I still find my way through it<\/p>\n<p>My way, my way alone<br \/>\nCall me greedy all you want<br \/>\nno truer words can be said<br \/>\nBecause this world, everything in it, is there for the taking<br \/>\nIf I want it, I tell you, I will always get it<\/p>\n<p>Money, status, materials and associates<br \/>\nAll are but a hand&#8217;s reach away<br \/>\nI am a man who knows what I want<br \/>\nand the word &#8220;no&#8221; is something I&#8217;m very much deaf towards<\/p>\n<p>So what of your foolish goals and dreams?<br \/>\nVery infantile and lackluster when held to the greatness<br \/>\nthe greatness of my desire to gain more, to gain greater things, to have it all<br \/>\nI&#8217;m greedy, but I&#8217;m also destined for great things<br \/>\nI will have my day and I will have everything I desire, no matter what<\/p>\n<p>Call it sinful if you must<br \/>\nMy wonderful, delightful avarice<br \/>\nBecause I am greedy<br \/>\nAnd want it&#8211;I desire it&#8211;all to myself<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Avarice &#8211; A sort-of poetic something by Phil &#8220;CrazedPenguin&#8221; Gorski But what of your simple goals and dreams? I dream of big things, many things, my things Life most certainly isn&#8217;t always as it seems And I still find my way through it My way, my way alone Call me greedy all you want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-penguins-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}