{"id":113094,"date":"2022-06-25T17:01:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113094"},"modified":"2022-06-25T21:27:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T01:27:02","slug":"no-12-no-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/no-12-no-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 12: No Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>The eyes have it\r\nI can make my way\r\nThrough the dark\r\nSee where I'm going, where I have been\r\n\r\nI can retrace my steps\r\nJust for the sheer pleasure\r\nMostly I move forward\r\nFeasting on the vistas and horizons\r\n\r\nYes, the eyes have it\r\nFor the colors of the day\r\nThe shadows of the night\r\nMaking my way through my world\r\n\r\nI'm grateful that my eyes have it\r\nEven though they are enhanced\r\nBy framed lenses perched on my nose\r\nI still see with clarity all around\r\n\r\nI would miss hearing\r\nThe sounds in my life\r\nEven the cacophony of chaos\r\nBut I can see it\r\n\r\nSo it's no contest\r\nWhen asked: Sight or sound?\r\nI choose sight because\r\nThe eyes have it<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eyes have it I can make my way Through the dark See where I&#8217;m going, where I have been I can retrace my steps Just for the sheer pleasure Mostly I move forward Feasting on the vistas and horizons Yes, the eyes have it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113094","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\/2354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113338,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113094\/revisions\/113338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}