{"id":10221,"date":"2015-06-13T18:04:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T22:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=10221"},"modified":"2015-06-13T18:04:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T22:04:47","slug":"hour-9-on-being-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/hour-9-on-being-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 9 \u2014 On Being You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world at large neither\u00a0knows<br \/>\nnor cares\u00a0how you\u00a0feel<br \/>\nYet, for reasons unknown,<br \/>\nit stands silently and\u00a0indifferently,<br \/>\nWatching\u00a0the spectacle<br \/>\nof\u00a0your <em>wanting<\/em> to exist.<\/p>\n<p>Were you\u00a0but a lump of modeling clay<br \/>\nWould you\u00a0have cared for your\u00a0formlessness?<br \/>\nOr, if you\u00a0were just a molecule,<br \/>\nWould it have made sense<br \/>\nif you complained<br \/>\nWhy you were\u00a0a component molecule of water?<br \/>\nOr, maybe a molecule in some underground mineral alloy?<\/p>\n<p>Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>Yet,\u00a0being human, you\u00a0have grown used<br \/>\nTo the will of being You.<br \/>\nAnd unrepentant,<br \/>\nyou\u00a0keep asserting your\u00a0will to be\u00a0You.<\/p>\n<p>Your\u00a0you-ness has cost you\u00a0worldly affiliation<br \/>\nNo doubts about that<br \/>\nHowever, does it give\u00a0you\u00a0great joy<br \/>\nto be You?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world at large neither\u00a0knows nor cares\u00a0how you\u00a0feel Yet, for reasons unknown, it stands silently and\u00a0indifferently, Watching\u00a0the spectacle of\u00a0your wanting to exist. Were you\u00a0but a lump of modeling clay Would you\u00a0have cared for your\u00a0formlessness? Or, if you\u00a0were just a molecule, Would it have made sense&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":648,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10221","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\/648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10358,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10221\/revisions\/10358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}