{"id":743,"date":"2026-05-05T17:29:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T23:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/?p=743"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T23:29:43","slug":"dead-end-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/?p=743","title":{"rendered":"Dead-End Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-11b572731453e2afaab5440675cf6073 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-right:0;margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">My MONSTERS live on<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3caccdd6124e0f945e0d49f1cc87850c wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-right:0;margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">a dead-end road. That&#8217;s why<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-005303c3d4a2210c63bd01d251872e85 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-right:0;margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">I don&#8217;t walk backwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My MONSTERS live on a dead-end road. That&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t walk backwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[30,29,22],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-mental-health","tag-poems","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}