{"id":9468,"date":"2010-04-03T14:34:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T14:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2010\/04\/farce-life\/"},"modified":"2010-04-03T14:34:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T14:34:52","slug":"farce-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2010\/04\/farce-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Farce of life!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Yes I pretend!
\nWhen I am sad..
\nI still smile.
\nBut I can\u2019t stop smiling
\nwhen I am actually happy!
\nI might laugh when
\nI don\u2019t like your joke!
\nBut I cannot not laugh
\nwhen I really like it!
\nI say life is good
\nwhen it actually is bad.
\nBut I can\u2019t say life is bad
\nwhen it is absolutely good!
\nAll that charade is nothing but
\nan effort to accept!
\n(or did I say escape?)
\nNever mind the farce of life!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes I pretend!
\nWhen I am sad..
\nI still smile.
\nBut I can’t stop smiling
\nwhen I am actually happy!
\nI might laugh when
\nI don’t like your joke!
\nBut I cannot not laugh
\nwhen I really like it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"yoast_head":"\nFarce of life!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yes I pretend! When I am sad.. I still smile. But I can't stop smiling when I am actually happy! I might laugh when I don't like your joke! 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