{"id":1245,"date":"2021-08-03T15:24:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2021-08-03T15:24:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:24:49","slug":"narcissists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/2021\/08\/03\/narcissists\/","title":{"rendered":"Narcissists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Featured in the 2014 Fall Issue of Rambunctious<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Narcissists\nAkbar Qahar, '17\n\nWe all have big egos\nEven the ones that don\u2019t\nWe all think we\u2019re important\nOr that our insignificance matters\nEverything is made smaller\nInto little fathomable measurements\u00a0\nThe reality that everything is out of control\nThat everything can be taken away\nAnd nothing is consistent\u00a0\nIn the entire span of time, except time\nIt\u2019s what we rely on\nIt\u2019s what we break down\nInto years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes\u00a0\nSeconds, milliseconds, and so forth\nTo make ourselves believe\nThat we have an impact\nThe world or universe\u00a0\nBoth of which can be taken away\nIn an instance and vanish into nothing\nWe are comforted by the idea of stability\nThe idea that infinity exists\nAn idea we should be fearful of<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akbar Qahar, &#8217;17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"full-width-single-post.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}