{"id":8233,"date":"2023-01-27T00:59:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T00:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8233"},"modified":"2023-01-27T16:45:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T16:45:17","slug":"misc-life-art-poetry-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8233","title":{"rendered":"MiSC: Life &amp; Art, Poetry &amp; Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-y4T_wYJ7YE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Black eyed dog he called at my door<br \/>The black eyed dog he called for more<br \/>A black eyed dog he knew my name<br \/>A black eyed dog he knew my name<br \/>A black eyed dog<br \/>A black eyed dog<br \/>I'm growing old and I wanna go home, I'm growing old and I dont wanna know<br \/>I'm growing old and I wanna go home<br \/>Black eyed dog he called at my door<br \/>The black eyed dog he called for more<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Never been a dog person. Much prefer cats! But a little yappy terrier called Insomnia is barking and biting at my heels again. Put the little fucker down, I say. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in the hallway, in the shadows, his darker more vulpine cousin can be heard, panting and drooling, occasionally pacing the few meagre feet of corridor. Depression is that mutt\u2019s name. I can smell his stink from here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not listening to it literally. But the words and melodies of Drake\u2019s \u2018Black Eyed Dog\u2019 are circling like carrion in my spent and careworn brain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">I'm growing old and I wanna go home, I'm growing old and I dont wanna know<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Can I get an a-men? Too right! Ah-bleedin\u2019-men! Can I get a hallelujah? You must be fucking joking! Tired of scrabbling in the dirt and dust in the peripheral shadows. Stop the ride, I\u2019m sick and dizzy, and I want to get off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black eyed dog he called at my doorThe black eyed dog he called for moreA black eyed dog he knew my nameA black eyed dog he knew my nameA black eyed dogA black eyed dogI&#8217;m growing old and I wanna go home, I&#8217;m growing old and I dont wanna knowI&#8217;m growing old and I wanna &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8233\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MiSC: Life &amp; Art, Poetry &amp; Depression&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[178,163,89,216,81,82,118,68,20,105,114,107,113,100,139,111],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-28N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8236,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8233\/revisions\/8236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}