{"id":7256,"date":"2025-10-27T13:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philgeist.com\/blog\/?p=7256"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:20:49","slug":"blithe-velvet-delusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philgeist.com\/blog\/blithe-velvet-delusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Blithe Velvet Delusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bv-section\" style=\"max-width: 750px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 2rem; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #222; line-height: 1.6; background-color: #ffffff; border-radius: 8px; box-shadow: 0 4px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.05);\">\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 2rem; letter-spacing: 3px; text-transform: uppercase; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; color: #222;\">BLITHE VELVET DELUSION<\/h2>\r\n<p><!-- Image with clean border --><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; border: 2px solid #ccc; border-radius: 4px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/philgeist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2991.jpg\" alt=\"Moody abstract image\" \/><\/p>\r\n<div style=\"font-size: 1.05rem; white-space: pre-line; padding: 1.5rem; border-radius: 6px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;\">It\u2019s to The Mars Volta\u2014and when I feel like there\u2019s no light left in me.<br \/>I still smoke <strong>Djarum Black cloves<\/strong> in the house anyway.<br \/>I blow smoke up at the ceiling and look over at my Frances the Mute poster.<br \/>I want to pull a <strong>red velvet bag<\/strong> over my own head.<br \/>I want to obscure my vision until\u2014\r\n<p>I\u2019m blithely unaware of my own <strong>velvet delusion<\/strong>.<br \/>I have a poetry-escape addiction.<br \/>I can\u2019t control my compulsion.<br \/>I won\u2019t stop until I\u2019m satisfied,<br \/>because it\u2019s the middle of the night and I should be sleeping<br \/>because maybe this music montage doesn\u2019t matter<\/p>\r\n<p>if the past is immutable and\u2014<br \/>I always lose my accent in the future.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"wp-image-7278 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/philgeist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2992.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philgeist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2992.jpg 500w, https:\/\/philgeist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2992-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/philgeist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2992-140x140.jpg 140w, https:\/\/philgeist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_2992-350x350.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLITHE VELVET DELUSION It\u2019s to The Mars Volta\u2014and when I feel like there\u2019s no light left in me.I still smoke Djarum Black cloves in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-poetry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philgeist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philgeist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philgeist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philgeist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philgeist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7256"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/philgeist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7281,"href":"https:\/\/philgeist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256\/revisions\/7281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philgeist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philgeist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philgeist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philgeist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}