{"id":111775,"date":"2022-06-25T15:38:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=111775"},"modified":"2022-06-25T15:38:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:38:56","slug":"ambiguous-covenant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/ambiguous-covenant\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambiguous Covenant (Hour #7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">Be careful, will<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong>you?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong>Things aren&#8217;t always as they seem. Why do you trust so easily? Are you naive? Do you know the most easily sold item? Wanna know?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong>It&#8217;s your soul. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\"><em><strong>You. <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong>Pacts, Covenants, Contracts \u2014 Call them whatever you want, the fact remains the same; it&#8217;s a trade. And the world doesn&#8217;t play fair&#8230; it&#8217;s your loss. You&#8217;re the one loosing out.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">Forget about having a long spoon, just don&#8217;t do it. Don&#8217;t dine with the devil. Why would you do so? What&#8217;s the use of using a long spoon when the meal&#8217;s poisoned? Isn&#8217;t it still entering your mouth?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">You&#8217;re the most precious person to yourself.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong>Protect yourself for yourself. Stand properly will you? Stand properly and fight. Enough of those punny excuses. You only have yourself, no one else.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong>Remember, it&#8217;s all a sham.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong>This world we live in; it&#8217;s in shambles.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong>You can only make it out alive by dying for what you believe in.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be careful, will\u00a0you? Things aren&#8217;t always as they seem. Why do you trust so easily? Are you naive? Do you know the most easily sold item? Wanna know?\u00a0 It&#8217;s your soul. You. Pacts, Covenants, Contracts \u2014 Call them whatever you want, the fact remains the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[4909,680,251,10,630],"class_list":["post-111775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","tag-2022halfmarathon","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-deep","tag-poetry","tag-the-poetry-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111775","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\/4008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112262,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111775\/revisions\/112262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}