{"id":109540,"date":"2022-06-25T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=109540"},"modified":"2022-06-25T12:30:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:30:16","slug":"where-the-proud-once-stood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/where-the-proud-once-stood\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Proud Once Stood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-109559\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cite-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cite-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cite-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cite.png 706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rubble, rubble, times of trouble<\/p>\n<p>Ruined cities span as far as the eye can see<\/p>\n<p>But few eyes remain, \u00a0peering \u00a0from steel caves<\/p>\n<p>Shabby bodies huddle, clad in leather and rags<\/p>\n<p>Only hunger sends them to hunt with bows<\/p>\n<p>To seek meat from hideous mutated beasts<\/p>\n<p>A few old souls tell stories of brighter times<\/p>\n<p>When metal chariots coasted through the land<\/p>\n<p>And people stared into shiny devices<\/p>\n<p>Food so plentiful people threw it in the trash<\/p>\n<p>But anger and prejudice sent fire raining down<\/p>\n<p>Blasting bodies into ash and sickening millions more<\/p>\n<p>The past swept away, now only the strong survive<\/p>\n<p>Eeking out primitive lives where the proud once stood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Rubble, rubble, times of trouble Ruined cities span as far as the eye can see But few eyes remain, \u00a0peering \u00a0from steel caves Shabby bodies huddle, clad in leather and rags Only hunger sends them to hunt with bows To seek meat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1065,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109540","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\/1065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109589,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109540\/revisions\/109589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}