{"id":100211,"date":"2021-06-27T02:40:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100211"},"modified":"2021-06-27T02:40:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:40:59","slug":"listen-to-understand-not-to-answer-surya-t-poetry-marathon-poem-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/listen-to-understand-not-to-answer-surya-t-poetry-marathon-poem-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to understand, not to answer | Surya T | Poetry Marathon Poem 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it too much to ask from you?<br \/>\nWhen I say just listen?<br \/>\nI have something to say<br \/>\nand it&#8217;s important for you to listen<\/p>\n<p>Is it too much to ask from you?<br \/>\nWhen I say just listen?<br \/>\nYour sarcastic replies to a simple request<br \/>\nis too annoying to hear as an answer<\/p>\n<p>I get you&#8217;re witty and sarcastic<br \/>\nI get you&#8217;re smart and have varied opinions<br \/>\nBut you&#8217;re not the only one, dude<br \/>\nWe also do have opinions<\/p>\n<p>Before you interrupt a statement<br \/>\nto pitch in your answer<br \/>\nThink for a moment as to what is being said<br \/>\nand if the response is accurate<\/p>\n<p>Many opinions are not black and white<br \/>\nbut myriad shades of gray<br \/>\nYou always misunderstand me, your idiocy<br \/>\nand one day, you will go too far<\/p>\n<p>I may not be interested in confrontation<br \/>\nbut there might be one who is<br \/>\nand when you interrupt them like an idiot that you are<br \/>\nyou shall put yourself in an early grave<\/p>\n<p>So, when I say just shut the frick up<br \/>\nand listen to what is being said<br \/>\nit is in your best interest<br \/>\nto listen and implement what&#8217;s just been said<\/p>\n<p><em>-Surya T<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it too much to ask from you? When I say just listen? I have something to say and it&#8217;s important for you to listen Is it too much to ask from you? When I say just listen? Your sarcastic replies to a simple request&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3791,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100441,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100211\/revisions\/100441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}