{"id":102475,"date":"2021-06-27T07:40:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=102475"},"modified":"2021-06-27T07:40:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:40:23","slug":"not-a-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/not-a-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mortals are good readers of grief.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In a nameless city, there&#8217;s a claim<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">mortals do not know how to read things<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">written, and poems scribbled &#8211; a light<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">for their pathway into Eden, the new one.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">How else does a man prophesy blindness<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">to his eyes but by feigning it?<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In same city, a man as old as a country<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">says he doesn&#8217;t think God exist.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">How would I talk him into believing<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">the written word? This is not a failure!<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This man whose heart is a rusty cell<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">wouldn&#8217;t allow himself to be imprisoned.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mortals are good readers of grief. In a nameless city, there&#8217;s a claim mortals do not know how to read things written, and poems scribbled &#8211; a light for their pathway into Eden, the new one. How else does a man prophesy blindness to his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102475","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=102475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102487,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102475\/revisions\/102487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}