{"id":723,"date":"2010-08-28T02:30:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T09:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottbecker.ws\/drc\/?p=723"},"modified":"2010-08-28T02:30:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T09:30:56","slug":"portia-nelsons-five-short-chapters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/2010\/portia-nelsons-five-short-chapters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry of Portia Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Autobiography in Five Short Chapters<br \/>\n<\/em> <span style=\"font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;\"><em><strong>Chapter 1<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/strong><em>I walk down the street.<br \/>\nThere is a deep hole in the sidewalk.<br \/>\nI fall in.<br \/>\nI am lost \u2026 I am helpless.<br \/>\nIt isn\u2019t my fault.<br \/>\nIt takes forever to find a way out.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Chapter 2<\/strong><br \/>\nI walk down the same street.<br \/>\nThere is a deep hole in the sidewalk.<br \/>\nI pretend I don\u2019t see it.<br \/>\nI fall in again.<br \/>\nI can\u2019t believe I am in the same place.<br \/>\nBut it isn\u2019t my fault.<br \/>\nIt still takes a long time to get out.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><!--more-->Chapter 3<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em> I walk down the same street.<br \/>\nThere is a deep hole in the sidewalk.<br \/>\nI see it is there.<br \/>\nI still fall in \u2026 it\u2019s a habit.<br \/>\nMy eyes are open.<br \/>\nI know where I am.<br \/>\nIt is my fault.<br \/>\nI get out immediately.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Chapter 4<\/em><\/strong><em><br \/>\nI walk down the same street.<br \/>\nThere is a deep hole in the sidewalk.<br \/>\nI walk around it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Chapter 5<\/em><\/strong><em><br \/>\nI walk down another street.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013\u00a0Portia Nelson\u00a0from \u2018<\/em><a title=\"at amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Theres-Hole-My-Sidewalk-Self-Discovery\/dp\/0941831876\" target=\"_blank\"><em>There\u2019s a Hole in My Sidewalk<\/em><\/a><em>\u2019<br \/>\n<\/em> <a title=\"NYTimes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/03\/10\/us\/portia-nelson-80-songwriter-and-club-performer.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autobiography in Five Short Chapters Chapter 1 I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost \u2026 I am helpless. It isn\u2019t my fault. It takes forever to find a way out. Chapter 2 I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[96,148,150,156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}