{"id":1251,"date":"2014-08-18T18:08:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T16:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mondomare.de\/wordpress\/?page_id=1251"},"modified":"2014-08-18T18:08:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T16:08:57","slug":"the-double-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.mondomare.de\/wordpress\/?page_id=1251","title":{"rendered":"The Double Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Double Life<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How very simple life would be<br \/>\nIf only there were two of me<br \/>\nA Restless Me to drift and roam<br \/>\nA Quiet Me to stay at home.<br \/>\nA Searching One to find his fill<br \/>\nOf varied skies and newfound thrill<br \/>\nWhile sane and homely things are done<br \/>\nBy the domestic Other One.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just where the trouble lies;<br \/>\nThere is a Restless Me that cries<br \/>\nFor chancy risks and changing scene,<br \/>\nFor arctic blue and tropic green,<br \/>\nFor deserts with their mystic spell,<br \/>\nFor lusty fun and raising Hell,<\/p>\n<p>But shackled to that Restless Me<br \/>\nMy Other Self rebelliously<br \/>\nResists the frantic urge to move.<br \/>\nIt seeks the old familiar groove<br \/>\nThat habits make. It finds content<br \/>\nWith hearth and home \u2014 dear prisonment,<br \/>\nWith candlelight and well-loved books<br \/>\nAnd treasured loot in dusty nooks,<\/p>\n<p>With puttering and garden things<br \/>\nAnd dreaming while a cricket sings<br \/>\nAnd all the while the Restless One<br \/>\nInsists on more exciting fun,<br \/>\nIt wants to go with every tide,<br \/>\nNo matter where\u2026just for the ride.<br \/>\nLike yowling cats the two selves brawl<br \/>\nUntil I have no peace at all.<\/p>\n<p>One eye turns to the forward track,<br \/>\nThe other eye looks sadly back.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m getting wall-eyed from the strain,<br \/>\n(It&#8217;s tough to have an idle brain)<br \/>\nBut One says &#8222;Stay&#8220; and One says &#8222;Go&#8220;<br \/>\nAnd One says &#8222;Yes,&#8220; and One says &#8222;No,&#8220;<br \/>\nAnd One Self wants a home and wife<br \/>\nAnd One Self craves the drifter&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>The Restless Fellow always wins<br \/>\nI wish my folks had made me twins.<\/p>\n<p><em>(poem by Don Blanding)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Double Life How very simple life would be If only there were two of me A Restless Me to drift and roam A Quiet Me to stay at home. A Searching One to find his fill Of varied skies and newfound thrill While sane and homely things are done By the domestic Other One. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mondomare.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1251"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mondomare.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mondomare.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mondomare.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mondomare.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mondomare.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"http:\/\/www.mondomare.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1251\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mondomare.de\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}