{"id":108265,"date":"2022-06-25T11:26:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=108265"},"modified":"2022-06-25T11:26:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:26:13","slug":"voice-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/voice-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice of History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grand, far too grand<br \/>\nFor a person such as me<br \/>\nUncultured and ill formed<br \/>\nAnd a sense of inferiority<\/p>\n<p>This music flows through silence<br \/>\nLike a melodic golden river<br \/>\nEchoing from buttressed halls<br \/>\nAnd making my spine quiver<\/p>\n<p>It sings of strength, direct and poised<br \/>\nSings of elegant grand homes<br \/>\nBut behind it all, I detect a whiff<br \/>\nOf a slight regretful tone<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps its mournful voice<br \/>\nRecalls that times are moving fast<br \/>\nFrom a time when people truly lived<br \/>\nIn moments, not glories past<\/p>\n<p>When the bar had yet to fall<br \/>\nBefore what was written for one is now for all<br \/>\nI hear perhaps a mournful recall<br \/>\nOf when somethings were still on a pedestal<\/p>\n<p>For times change, and we must change with them<br \/>\nTis the curse of living<br \/>\nBut I can&#8217;t help feeling we leave behind<br \/>\nSome special part, now missing<\/p>\n<p>I hear these notes and feel that maybe<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t have to abandon all<br \/>\nIts the shoulders of so many others<br \/>\nThat allow us all now to stand tall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand, far too grand For a person such as me Uncultured and ill formed And a sense of inferiority This music flows through silence Like a melodic golden river Echoing from buttressed halls And making my spine quiver It sings of strength, direct and poised&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1484,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108265","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\/1484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108644,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108265\/revisions\/108644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}