{"id":100512,"date":"2021-06-27T02:51:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100512"},"modified":"2021-06-27T02:51:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:51:54","slug":"a-broad-mixture-of-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-broad-mixture-of-words\/","title":{"rendered":"A Broad Mixture of Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">wasn&#8217;t a burden transcribed for us.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Most times, it&#8217;s not\u00a0 weight that sink a ship.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I know you do not like reading what was scribbled<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">for us. I think you knew more children that I know.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The cold is not leaving us soon. It has learnt doggedness from the sons of Israel.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Sit them down beside the burning flame<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Be still and listen to them as you would, God,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">speaking to you from the holy of most holies.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I am afraid you&#8217;re walking the broad way.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I still haven&#8217;t judge neither would I ever.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">How displeasing it is to walk a cramp road.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">My ear stools excess word of God _<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">can there ever be a party of spirit outflow?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I want to say no written word is irrelevant.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">As important as air to the body, so are they.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In my home where fire burns everything alive,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">we depend on words to live a life life denied us.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Welcome those who do not welcome us.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">And because I have a haunting image of you as a rebel,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I am recommending plenty of what was written.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wasn&#8217;t a burden transcribed for us. Most times, it&#8217;s not\u00a0 weight that sink a ship. I know you do not like reading what was scribbled for us. I think you knew more children that I know. The cold is not leaving us soon. It has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100512","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\/1398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100515,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100512\/revisions\/100515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}