{"id":113675,"date":"2022-06-25T17:24:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113675"},"modified":"2022-07-04T23:19:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T03:19:22","slug":"hour-9-burial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-9-burial\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 9: Burial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humans die, we all do<br \/>\nThen it&#8217;s time for burial<br \/>\nReturning from where<br \/>\nWe came too<\/p>\n<p>A body made of elements<br \/>\nBack to elements we go<br \/>\nThe choice of how<br \/>\nIs already made for you<\/p>\n<p>Some by fire<br \/>\nBurn away sins,<br \/>\nOnly Ash<br \/>\nto remember you by<\/p>\n<p>Some in water<br \/>\nGoing with the<br \/>\nflow of life<br \/>\nTill the bitter end<\/p>\n<p>A few through sky &amp; air<br \/>\nBecoming food<br \/>\nTo replenish the natural world<br \/>\nAs it once did you <\/p>\n<p>And many more still<br \/>\nWho are laid to rest<br \/>\nIn the lap of Earth<br \/>\nAnd bidden goodbyes<\/p>\n<p>But no matter what<br \/>\nBurial you recieve<br \/>\nYou were here and you have lived<br \/>\nDeath is just yet another beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans die, we all do Then it&#8217;s time for burial Returning from where We came too A body made of elements Back to elements we go The choice of how Is already made for you Some by fire Burn away sins, Only Ash to remember&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113675","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\/843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124559,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113675\/revisions\/124559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}