{"id":112669,"date":"2022-06-25T17:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=112669"},"modified":"2022-06-26T09:51:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T13:51:02","slug":"thoughts-of-unrest-half-marathon-post-8-gigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/thoughts-of-unrest-half-marathon-post-8-gigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts Of Unrest &#8211; Half Marathon Post #8 (gigan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Thoughts Of Unrest<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You scream, &#8220;Revolution!&#8221; at the top of your lungs<br \/>\nHave you lived through one?<\/p>\n<p>Do you understand what it will do<br \/>\nto your life, the lives of others?<br \/>\nHave you really thought it through?<\/p>\n<p>Neighbor against neighbor, house to house<br \/>\nBetrayals and recriminations, trials and executions<\/p>\n<p>The horrors of Guernica, Robespierre&#8217;s September massacres,<br \/>\nThe proscriptions of Marius and Sulla,<\/p>\n<p>All of this bloody, horrible potential, and still<br \/>\nYou scream, &#8220;Revolution!&#8221; at the top of your lungs<\/p>\n<p>Neighbor against neighbor, house to house<br \/>\nYou eagerly anticipate the carnage,<br \/>\nLips wet and slightly parted, breathing heavily<\/p>\n<p>I am afraid that perhaps you have thought too much<br \/>\nOf what revolution will bring, and you await it too eagerly<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h6>A <em>gigan<\/em> is a 16-line poem, divided into 7 stanzas as follows: couplet, tercet, couplet, couplet, couplet, tercet, couplet. The first and eleventh lines are the same, and the sixth and twelfth are also repeats.<\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts Of Unrest You scream, &#8220;Revolution!&#8221; at the top of your lungs Have you lived through one? Do you understand what it will do to your life, the lives of others? Have you really thought it through? Neighbor against neighbor, house to house Betrayals and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4007,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112669","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\/4007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112669"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123153,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112669\/revisions\/123153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}