{"id":2459007,"date":"2020-05-29T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T03:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/the-empty-man\/"},"modified":"2020-05-30T07:28:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T13:28:08","slug":"the-empty-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/the-empty-man\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Empty Man\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Have you seen the Empty Man?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Empty Man<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Fluffed orange hair and a store-bought tan<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Yes, that\u2019s the Empty Man<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row at-donation at-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A pudgy face and pouting lips<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Bulging blubber at his hips<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Empty Man, the Empty Man<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Yes, that\u2019s the Empty Man<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">There is no soul inside there<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">No heart, no truth, he\u2019s unaware<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The space is filled with \u2026 filled with what?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A tiny empty mind that\u2019s shut<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Like any fool he mutters noise<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Smutty jokes among the boys<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Lies and hate that he deploys<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Discord, distraction, all decoys<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">He makes no attempt to ever mask it<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">No virtue, just vanity \u2014 don\u2019t over task it<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Destruction and blame his dirty game<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Self-pity and anger his afraid refrain<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Is there anything good at all in there?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Something more than rancid air<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Oh, the arrogance of the Empty Man,<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Fluffed orange hair and a store-bought tan<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Greg Lewis<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Woody Creek<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/the-empty-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen the Empty Man? The Empty Man Fluffed orange hair and a store-bought tan Yes, that\u2019s the Empty Man Support Local Journalism Donate A pudgy face and pouting lips Bulging blubber at his hips The Empty Man, the Empty Man Yes, that\u2019s the Empty Man There is no soul inside there No heart, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2459007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-17 04:54:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2459007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459017,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459007\/revisions\/2459017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2459007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2459007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2459007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}