{"id":16959,"date":"2024-02-22T06:01:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T06:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gryoungscholarsmagazine.org\/?p=251"},"modified":"2024-02-22T06:01:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T06:01:04","slug":"fantasy-vs-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/?p=16959","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Vs. Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fantasy Vs. Reality<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I woke up one night with tears in my eyes,<\/p>\n<p>Saw some people weeping I heard some cries.<\/p>\n<p>Saw the reality in my dream,<\/p>\n<p>Fantasy was the real world. What it may seem?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Superman here, Spider man there,<\/p>\n<p>All looking like clowns in a fair.<\/p>\n<p>Hope I could be one of them,<\/p>\n<p>But then my spine caught the reality\u2019s stem.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There ain\u2019t no Superman to fly you to school,<\/p>\n<p>You gotta take the bus and look like a fool.<\/p>\n<p>There ain\u2019t no Batman who gives a good bash,<\/p>\n<p>When you see the goons you gotta give the cash.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You are no Dexter, you are no good,<\/p>\n<p>15 is the place where you stood.<\/p>\n<p>In the movies the teachers are cool,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCool! What the hell, expel him from the<\/p>\n<p>school\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You aren\u2019t no Beckham to amaze them all,<\/p>\n<p>Only if the PT teacher; gives you the ball.<\/p>\n<p>The nights are wow! But the days are \u201cuff\u201d,<\/p>\n<p>Your happiness goes \u201cpoof\u201d \u201cpoof\u201d \u201cpoof\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Dreaming time; was always the best,<\/p>\n<p>Horrible was reality and the rest.<\/p>\n<p>But reality was real and I was stuck.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking like that I chuck it all up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Siddharth Yadav<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantasy Vs. Reality \u00a0 I woke up one night with tears in my eyes, Saw some people weeping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}