{"id":108629,"date":"2022-06-26T21:36:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T01:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=108629"},"modified":"2022-07-22T17:46:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T21:46:36","slug":"hour-3-the-state-of-our-worldthe-world-seen-and-unseen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-3-the-state-of-our-worldthe-world-seen-and-unseen\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 3: The State of Our Here and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guns have more rights than woman\u2019s wombs.<\/p>\n<p>Death is more lauded than life.<\/p>\n<p>Funerals are more prevalent than weddings.<\/p>\n<p>Hospice hurts while hospitals no longer heal.<\/p>\n<p>Father&#8217;s love can not be valued in conventional currency.<\/p>\n<p>The sky offers more hope than any book.<\/p>\n<p>A simple hello or message out of the blue is more far reaching than a declaration of love.<\/p>\n<p>Smiles of a child can wash all your worries away almost instananeously.<\/p>\n<p>Music is more meaningful than any promise presumes to be.<\/p>\n<p>The sun&#8217;s energetic embrace is more uplifting than any tangible want one can imagine.<\/p>\n<p>Transferring sound, thoughts, dreams, and prayer into the spoken word is as powerful as putting them to paper, if not more.<\/p>\n<p>You have entered a holy realm.<\/p>\n<p>Eyes too beautiful to stare into like the cosmos\u2026 if not another\u2019s, find the depth of your own.<\/p>\n<p>This is a sacred space not everyone can enter.<\/p>\n<p>You have come home to the here and now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guns have more rights than woman\u2019s wombs. Death is more lauded than life. Funerals are more prevalent than weddings. Hospice hurts while hospitals no longer heal. Father&#8217;s love can not be valued in conventional currency. The sky offers more hope than any book. A simple&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":785,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108629","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\/108629","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\/785"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108629"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125109,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108629\/revisions\/125109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}