{"id":100342,"date":"2021-06-27T02:27:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100342"},"modified":"2021-06-27T02:27:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:27:53","slug":"hour-17-books-were-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-17-books-were-safer\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 17: Books were Safer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Books were safer<\/p>\n<p>Even when they disappointed<\/p>\n<p>Or twisted to unexpected ends<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If they spirited me<\/p>\n<p>Into danger and certain death,<\/p>\n<p>I could always return to ground<\/p>\n<p>With but a scratch on my memory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even though they created for me<\/p>\n<p>Wicked worlds, shrouded in pain,<\/p>\n<p>They brought me to places<\/p>\n<p>Where hearts are healed and souls revived.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They filled me up<\/p>\n<p>With critical thoughts<\/p>\n<p>And stretched my imagining<\/p>\n<p>Above my intellect.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Books would never trade my trust<\/p>\n<p>For lies<\/p>\n<p>Or diminish my unguarded devotion.<\/p>\n<p>They hold my place<\/p>\n<p>And never betray my love<\/p>\n<p>With envy or greed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Books were always safer<\/p>\n<p>Than other people<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books were safer Even when they disappointed Or twisted to unexpected ends &nbsp; If they spirited me Into danger and certain death, I could always return to ground With but a scratch on my memory. &nbsp; Even though they created for me Wicked worlds, shrouded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4101],"class_list":["post-100342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2021poetrymarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100342","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\/853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100350,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100342\/revisions\/100350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}