{"id":165,"date":"2025-05-01T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/english\/?p=165"},"modified":"2025-04-24T18:34:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:34:56","slug":"ronnie-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/english\/2025\/05\/01\/ronnie-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronnie Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-x-large-font-size\"><strong>I Want to Change<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The energy inside coils, uncoils\u2014<br>a snake poised to strike,<br>slithering through a shifting sea<br>of pleasure and pain.<br>Giving, taking.<br>Pushing, pulling.<br>Wrestling with the tide.<br>If only I could go back\u2014<br>Warn myself, rewrite the ending.<br>I\u2019d whisper, it was us,<br>we needed to change.<br>But no matter how I try not to I fight,<br>triggered from something mundane,<br>control slips through my grasp.<br>One misstep\u2014my mask cracks,<br>venom spills from my tongue.<br>I hurt someone.<br>Again.<br>And again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Want to Change The energy inside coils, uncoils\u2014a snake poised to strike,slithering through a shifting seaof pleasure and pain.Giving, taking.Pushing, pulling.Wrestling with the tide.If only I could go back\u2014Warn myself, rewrite the ending.I\u2019d whisper, it was us,we needed to change.But no matter how I try not to I fight,triggered from something mundane,control slips through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}