{"id":309,"date":"2008-10-20T20:30:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T18:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/?p=309"},"modified":"2008-10-20T20:30:13","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T18:30:13","slug":"oracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/archives\/309","title":{"rendered":"Oracle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><strong>Oracle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Tune: Billy Joel's &quot;Piano Man&quot;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It's nine o'clock on a Saturday.<br \/>\nThe crowd comes in steady and slow.<br \/>\nThere's an old man sitting next to me,<br \/>\nWithered-muscles and eyes that still glow.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHe said, &quot;Son, do you know who I used to be?&quot;<br \/>\nAnd I tell him I can see the past.<br \/>\nHe gives me a smile. He'll be pleased for a while,<br \/>\nBut I know it's not going to last.<\/p>\n<p>Tell us the future now, Oracle,<br \/>\nTell us the things you can see,<br \/>\nFor life is too short and too brutal<br \/>\nAnd we need to know what's gonna be.<\/p>\n<p>There's a kid at the bar who's a Telepath,<br \/>\nWho won't raise his eyes from the floor.<br \/>\nHe looks older than me, though I'm past forty-three<br \/>\nAnd just last week he turned twenty-four.<\/p>\n<p>He told me once, &quot;Bill, this is killing me,&quot;<br \/>\nAnd I didn't quite know what to say.<br \/>\nNow he's sitting alone, and he's quiet and stoned,<br \/>\nAnd his future just goes on that way.<\/p>\n<p>Tell us the future&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now Jim comes in regular every week<br \/>\nAnd he drinks till he's too pissed to stand.<br \/>\nHe's a Seer as well, but his life is just hell,<br \/>\nFor he knows what his own future plans.<\/p>\n<p>And he can't sleep at night for the knowing,<br \/>\nIt's long eaten away at his health;<br \/>\nIt's a terrible curse, but it's not any worse<br \/>\nThan the nothing I see for myself.<\/p>\n<p>Tell us the future&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It's a pretty good crowd for a Saturday,<br \/>\nAnd the manager smiles like a shark.<br \/>\nPeople with Powers pay handsomely<br \/>\nTo drink themselves numb in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>'Cause no place is a good place for Seers,<br \/>\nOr for old Supers fallen from grace;<br \/>\nI don't come here to drink, I just sit here and think,<br \/>\nWhy the hell do I come to this place?<\/p>\n<p>Tell us the future&#8230; <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle Tune: Billy Joel's &quot;Piano Man&quot;. It's nine o'clock on a Saturday. The crowd comes in steady and slow. There's an old man sitting next to me, Withered-muscles and eyes that still glow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}