{"id":165,"date":"2006-02-25T06:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-25T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=165"},"modified":"2015-11-01T17:36:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T01:36:24","slug":"im-just-like-a-child-but-im-no-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2006\/02\/25\/im-just-like-a-child-but-im-no-fool\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m just like a child but I’m no fool…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"I'm<\/p>\n

A<\/span>fter they broke up, he moved to the city.<\/p>\n

He stumbled into a great job, found a little walkup in a decent neighborhood. Others struggled to make it in the city but everything fell into place for him.<\/p>\n

And he was thankful for that, because he knew he couldn’t take the chance of running into her if he’d stayed back home. And that would have happened. They had all the same friends. The same favorite places. The same favorite camping spot a half hour out of town.<\/p>\n

So he went to the city and succeeded. His friends were amazed. His family was relieved.<\/p>\n

And he was… not lonely. Although he chose to be alone, for the most part. He went bowling with coworkers every other week, out of a sense of responsibility to himself as much as to his coworkers.<\/p>\n

Sometimes he would sit in a cafe and drink a beer or sip a coffee, watching people.<\/p>\n

Mostly he would walk.<\/p>\n\n

previous AYoS version<\/a> (9 Nov 05)<\/p>\n

NO FOOL<\/p>\n

Sitting all alone
\nby my telephone
\nWaited all day
\nbut that’s okay
\nI could wait all night
\nand that would be all right
\nfor a woman like you
\nI would wait all my life<\/p>\n

Sometimes I pull myself together
\nand I go downtown
\nI’m all dressed up
\nand I wander around
\nand I feel like a fool
\nI can’t stop thinking of you
\nWhen you’re all alone
\nthis city’s so cruel<\/p>\n

I walk along the river
\nuntil the stars come out
\nI sit by myself alone in the dark
\nand I wonder
\nOh yes I wonder
\nI’m just like a child
\nbut I am no fool
\nI know it’s over
\n
\n(C)1980, TK Major<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After they broke up, he moved to the city. He stumbled into a great job, found a little walkup in a decent neighborhood. Others struggled to make it in the city but everything fell into place for him. And he was thankful for that, because he knew he couldn’t take the chance of running into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,27],"tags":[551,752],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/2090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}