{"id":1456,"date":"2008-09-07T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/09\/07\/apologies-to-jim-norris\/"},"modified":"2008-09-07T08:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T08:24:00","slug":"apologies-to-jim-norris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/09\/07\/apologies-to-jim-norris\/","title":{"rendered":"Apologies to Jim Norris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, and by a while I mean all the way back in January of this year, a very nice man by the name of Jim Norris contacted me.  Do I ever feature poetry?  This was a new question for me and I responded that I would gladly feature the poem he sent me, but to bear with me while I found a home for it on our website.  Push forward to September 2008.  Um, yeah, well, to sum up, I suck.  This poor man by now must have assumed our readers would never see his lovely poem.  Surprise!  It has made it!  Finally.  My sincerest apologies to Jim.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Travel the Darkness<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can you journey into the night with me<br \/>\nCan you stand strong when beholding the darkness within<br \/>\nOnce the eye of your soul has become accustomed to the dimness of my soul<br \/>\nCan you live with what has been revealed<br \/>\nLet us soar into the inky blackness of a New Moon sky<br \/>\nLet us have faith in instincts passed on to us from the ancients that lived before<br \/>\nOnce you trust and the skin of your soul has become accustomed to the coolness of a midnight caress<br \/>\nCan you live again without that sensation<br \/>\nWe must make the pilgrimage into that which cannot be foreseen<br \/>\nWe must shatter the preconceived notions born out of our experiences<br \/>\nOnce your bones have felt the chill of my history<br \/>\nCan you live with what has been exposed<br \/>\nIt begins in this moment<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bio:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Jim Norris has been a practicing solitary since 2001 in the Kansas City area.  He has worked for and\/or on behalf of several corporate entities including Hallmark Cards and the Walt Disney Corporation. <\/p>\n<p>Feel free to leave him a message at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/kansastwisterjn\"target=\"_blank\">www.myspace.com\/kansastwisterjn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, and by a while I mean all the way back in January of this year, a very nice man by the name of Jim Norris contacted me.  Do I ever feature poetry?  This was a new question for me and I responded that I would gladly feature the poem he sent me, but to bear with me while I found a home for it on our website.  Push forward to September 2008.  Um, yeah, well, to sum up, I suck.  This poor man by now must have assumed our readers would never see his lovely poem.  Surprise!  It has made it!  Finally.  My sincerest apologies to Jim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}