{"id":593,"date":"2025-08-17T07:20:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T14:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/17\/%f0%9f%92%99\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T07:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T14:20:04","slug":"%f0%9f%92%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/17\/%f0%9f%92%99\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udc99"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>i don&#8217;t know<br \/>if it&#8217;s funny<br \/>or sad<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that people can read<br \/>a poem from a hundred<br \/>years ago<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and laugh<br \/>but when their friend<br \/>writes a poem<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>they worry about<br \/>their mental health<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(whose mental health<br \/>are they worried about?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>even people who<br \/>love the blues,<br \/>which is often<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>funny and sad:<br \/>that&#8217;s the blues<br \/>in a nutshell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>who doesn&#8217;t feel<br \/>funny and sad?<br \/>and who doesn&#8217;t love<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the blues?<br \/>that&#8217;s what love is<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>all about. (maybe they<br>don&#8217;t know what love is)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i don&#8217;t knowif it&#8217;s funnyor sad that people can reada poem from a hundredyears ago and laughbut when their friendwrites a poem they worry abouttheir mental health (whose mental healthare they worried about?) even people wholove the blues,which is often funny and sad:that&#8217;s the bluesin a nutshell. who doesn&#8217;t feelfunny and sad?and who doesn&#8217;t love &#8230; <a title=\"\ud83d\udc99\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/17\/%f0%9f%92%99\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \ud83d\udc99\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,28,2,31,8,5,14,26,16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicle","category-ethos","category-family-music","category-innerlog","category-literature","category-musicology","category-neurodiversity","category-personal-narrative","category-poem","category-reflection"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paor1p-9z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":615,"url":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/23\/%e2%9d%a3%ef%b8%8f\/","url_meta":{"origin":593,"position":0},"title":"\u2763\ufe0f","author":"Ryk Groetchen","date":"August 23, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"all the little things you do are done for love. don't doubt it. shout about it. shout about the things you do for love. 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