{"id":10955,"date":"2015-06-13T19:43:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T23:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=10955"},"modified":"2015-06-13T19:43:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T23:43:17","slug":"the-bohemian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/the-bohemian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bohemian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a wandering soul<br \/>\nlost in a world of his own<br \/>\na vagabond perhaps,<br \/>\na kindred spirit<br \/>\nmoving free from a world of chaos,<br \/>\nhe dares to be different<br \/>\nfrom a sea of fools trying to fit in.<\/p>\n<p>an era of madness<br \/>\nillusions of a perfect refuge<br \/>\nto a mystic like him,<br \/>\nridiculed from within<br \/>\nthe phantom outcast they label the pitiful man,<br \/>\nfor refusing to follow the ordinary crowd<br \/>\nwho continually mocks him.<\/p>\n<p>to live like a hermit<br \/>\nfar from the privy eyes<br \/>\nof men in vain,<br \/>\nhe created a sanctuary<br \/>\nonly he can understand,<br \/>\nliving in unconventional ways set him apart<br \/>\nfrom the shallow-brained maddening flock.<\/p>\n<p>his masterpieces can change this ill world at a glance<br \/>\nif only his voice is to be given a chance<br \/>\nno one knows his heart is full of love for mankind,<br \/>\nand yet almost all those he met are deaf and blind<br \/>\nselfish ones only thinking of what they can get,<br \/>\ninstead of giving a piece of them<br \/>\nand truly experience life.<\/p>\n<p>Author\/Poet Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a wandering soul lost in a world of his own a vagabond perhaps, a kindred spirit moving free from a world of chaos, he dares to be different from a sea of fools trying to fit in. an era of madness illusions of a perfect&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955","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\/235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10973,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955\/revisions\/10973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}