the image in the mirror isn’t you,
\nthough it looks like you and acts like you,
\nit’s face, too, seems such an odd shape,
\nit’s smile too forced, it’s eyelids too low,
\nand you’re reminded so much of yourself.<\/p>\n
but when, in the desperation of night’s cold,
\nyou throw yourself into its arms,
\nit shatters, cuts you, destroys your fragile countenance.<\/p>\n
now there are a hundred,
\nnone of them you.
\nregardless,
\nyou start an army,<\/p>\n
a throng of reflections looking to each other for answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
the image in the mirror isn’t you, though it looks like you and acts like you, it’s face, too, seems such an odd shape, it’s smile too forced, it’s eyelids too low, and you’re reminded so much of yourself. but when, in the desperation of night’s cold, you throw yourself into its arms, it shatters, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}