{"id":341,"date":"2011-02-04T09:07:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T16:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=341"},"modified":"2011-02-04T09:07:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T16:07:53","slug":"friday-poetry-clear-miscommunication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Friday Poetry &#8212; Clear Miscommunication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Clear Miscommunication<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sky is clear<br \/>\nI see all I can see<br \/>\nThe words you speak<br \/>\nCould not plainer be<\/p>\n<p>Upon your statements<br \/>\nI react, take action so quick<br \/>\nBut when I am done<br \/>\nYou say my head is thick<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not what you meant<br \/>\nI did the wrong thing<br \/>\nThen you clearly quote<br \/>\nA song I did not sing<\/p>\n<p>We talk for hours<br \/>\nOr perhaps only minutes<br \/>\nWe see each other as fools<br \/>\nNincompoops and dimwits<\/p>\n<p>That really isn&#8217;t so<br \/>\nI respect you a lot<br \/>\nYou think highly of me<br \/>\nAnd the smarts that I&#8217;ve got<\/p>\n<p>But when we speak<br \/>\nOur words get so twisted<br \/>\nMisunderstandings abound<br \/>\nToo many to be listed<\/p>\n<p>So I write this verse<br \/>\nOf the human condition<br \/>\nTo clear the confusion<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a dubious mission<\/p>\n<p>I say that although<br \/>\nMy intent is noble and good<br \/>\nConfusion will still rain<br \/>\nIn every neighborhood<\/p>\n<p>****<\/p>\n<p>I have been witness to a couple of misunderstandings lately; thus the poem above.\u00a0 One of those baffles me as the people involved are all nice, polite, helpful folks but one thinks the others were less than honorable.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s my ditty for the week and I hope you enjoyed it.\u00a0 See you Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clear Miscommunication The sky is clear I see all I can see The words you speak Could not plainer be Upon your statements I react, take action so quick But when I am done You say my head is thick It&#8217;s not what you meant I did the wrong thing Then you clearly quote A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}