{"id":100214,"date":"2021-06-27T02:12:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100214"},"modified":"2021-06-27T02:12:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:12:30","slug":"with-arms-outstretched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/with-arms-outstretched\/","title":{"rendered":"With Arms Outstretched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"CENTER\">With Arms Outstretched<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Do you get it? Can you see it? Go on. Reach out and touch it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">The great darkness is coming. I know, I know, but we&#8217;ve earned it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">The least of them we couldn&#8217;t even follow. The Third Temple is here.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Not even a week. You know that right? That&#8217;s how quick.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">No, there&#8217;s no time. Your dreams are as dead and empty as they ever were.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Running from it is not an option, the whole world plays a part. Even you.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">How do you face a time where there will soon be no time? Faith.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Faith over fear but that only really works for the devout.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">It&#8217;s so close now, reaching its prophecy out to you.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Feel it on your skin. The ink from the pages, tattooing itself deep.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">It&#8217;s swallowing you whole, weighing you down, pulling at you with an intensity.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Watch now, watch them ascend the Mount, with all their holiness, watch them start it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Open your eyes. Hold out your arms. Play your part. There&#8217;s nothing else to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Arms Outstretched Do you get it? Can you see it? Go on. Reach out and touch it. The great darkness is coming. I know, I know, but we&#8217;ve earned it. The least of them we couldn&#8217;t even follow. The Third Temple is here. Not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3743,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100214","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\/3743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100219,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100214\/revisions\/100219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}