{"id":3761,"date":"2026-02-07T17:02:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/love\/?p=3761"},"modified":"2026-02-07T17:13:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:13:38","slug":"recidivism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/love\/2026\/02\/07\/recidivism\/","title":{"rendered":"recidivism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phone light flashin before the city wake<br>Same voice, same panic, same mistake<br>Says walls closin in but the door ain\u2019t locked<br>Just habits doing laps round the same old block<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He talk dates, programs, people got faith<br>But freedom don\u2019t come with a release date<br>Mind still pacing like the count just rang<br>Keys jingle in the thought but he love the clang<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everybody got a plan when the tier go quiet<br>Till the mirror start talkin and the ego riot<br>He say growth, I hear hunger for witnesses<br>Change ain\u2019t real if it need a chorus to exist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I been in smaller rooms with louder truths<br>Where excuses get heavy and denial get loose<br>Learned quick some bars invisible<br>Sentence self-written, repeatable<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He say love keep him straight, I say pressure test<br>When applause leave early, what\u2019s left?<br>Some men need crowds to feel they alive<br>Some men sit still and let the lie die<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I don\u2019t play guard, don\u2019t argue the bid<br>I just note how the locks still answer the kid<br>If the cell come with you when the gates unlock<br>You still doin time on a different block<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phone go dark, sunrise hit the glass<br>Some warnings ain\u2019t threats, just math<br>I change routes, let the echo fade<br>Freedom quiet, never needed to be said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phone light flashin before the city wakeSame voice, same panic, same mistakeSays walls closin in but the door ain\u2019t lockedJust habits doing laps round the same old block He talk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3763,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions\/3763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarodthornton.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}