{"id":114566,"date":"2022-06-25T19:26:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=114566"},"modified":"2022-06-25T19:26:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:26:16","slug":"the-future-is-history-hour-nine-a-nontraditional-minute-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-future-is-history-hour-nine-a-nontraditional-minute-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future is History (Hour Nine, A Nontraditional Minute Poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Future is History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Technology has trained us to<\/p>\n<p>depend upon<\/p>\n<p>our devices<\/p>\n<p>to remember.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ev&#8217;rything we once knew has long<\/p>\n<p>been forgotten,<\/p>\n<p>parts of our p<span style=\"font-size: 16px\">ast<\/span><\/p>\n<p>lost forever.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to take our future back,<\/p>\n<p>to remember<\/p>\n<p>exactly who<\/p>\n<p>we think we are.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>****A traditional minute poem is composed of 60 syllables split among three stanzas, with each stanza having four lines where the syllabic count is 8\/4\/4\/4. Traditional minute poems are written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme of aabb, ccdd, eeff. I couldn&#8217;t put a true traditional minute poem together in a day, let alone an hour. So for the sake of saving time as well as what remains of my so-called sanity, I eliminated the constraints of rhyme and meter, devolving into the nontraditional minute format seen above.****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Future is History &nbsp; Technology has trained us to depend upon our devices to remember. &nbsp; Ev&#8217;rything we once knew has long been forgotten, parts of our past lost forever. &nbsp; It&#8217;s time to take our future back, to remember exactly who we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114566","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\/1212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115415,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114566\/revisions\/115415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}