{"id":193,"date":"2016-04-05T22:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T22:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catylou.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2025-04-21T05:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:12:01","slug":"in-the-silence-of-my-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"In the Silence of My Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The quietness is deafening<br \/>\nIt eats away at your soul<br \/>\nThe toaster pops and you jump<br \/>\nSo very quiet it\u2019s frightening<br \/>\nIn the silence of my room<\/p>\n<p>The heat kicks on and it\u2019s welcoming<br \/>\nThe swooshing of air is barely audible<br \/>\nThe clicking of the knitting needles<br \/>\nSeems to play a harmonizing tune<br \/>\nIn the silence of my room<\/p>\n<p>No music paying no TV it\u2019s all so very boring<br \/>\nSame old shows different verses-\u201cPete and Re-Pete\u201d<br \/>\nI can smile but it\u2019s hard to laugh out loud<br \/>\nSounds so hollow echoing in an empty room<br \/>\nIn the silence of my room<\/p>\n<p>I walk through the woods but there is no breeze<br \/>\nJust the rustling of the dead dried leaves<br \/>\nSeems the birds are napping as there\u2019s no tap-tapping<br \/>\nStanding still all sounds seem to freeze<br \/>\nIn the silence of the forest<\/p>\n<p>It is said, \u201cSilence is Golden\u201d<br \/>\nAnd for a short time it surely is<br \/>\nBut too much can drive you mad<br \/>\nOr at the very least make you sad<\/p>\n<p>Silence can be a friend<br \/>\nBut it can also be a foe<br \/>\nSilence can be deafening<br \/>\nIt can eat away at your soul<br \/>\nSilence-just pure silence<br \/>\nIn the silence of my room<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quietness is deafening It eats away at your soul The toaster pops and you jump So very quiet it\u2019s frightening In the silence of my room The heat kicks on and it\u2019s welcoming The swooshing of air is barely audible The clicking of the knitting needles Seems to play a harmonizing tune In the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/catylou.com\/?p=193\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In the Silence of My Room<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}