{"id":108319,"date":"2022-06-25T11:09:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=108319"},"modified":"2022-06-25T11:09:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:09:33","slug":"hour-2-road-to-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-2-road-to-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 2 &#8211; Road to Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Long is the road to paradise<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Climbing higher than my mother,<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">And her mother before her,<br \/>\n<\/span>So that she may grasp clouds in her little hands<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">My hands have blistered<br \/>\n<\/span>Growing tired of carrying these curses<br \/>\n<span class=\"s1\">But these burdens are not for her to shoulder <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Her body will not know my pain <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I am weary in the morning, anxious at night<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Are these legs strong enough,<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Arms long enough,<br \/>\n<\/span>Soul determined enough,<br \/>\nTo create her escape<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Long is the road to paradise<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">But I have promises to keep*<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">*Taken from Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long is the road to paradise Climbing higher than my mother, And her mother before her, So that she may grasp clouds in her little hands My hands have blistered Growing tired of carrying these curses But these burdens are not for her to shoulder&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108319","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\/4297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108370,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108319\/revisions\/108370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}