{"id":115093,"date":"2022-06-25T19:09:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=115093"},"modified":"2022-06-25T19:09:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:09:48","slug":"beautiful-oblivion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/beautiful-oblivion\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Oblivion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-115101\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220531_094303-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220531_094303-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220531_094303-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220531_094303-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220531_094303-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20220531_094303.jpg 1744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With a thump the wooden gong rings true<\/p>\n<p>Mindful melody summoning all to the zendo<\/p>\n<p>Morning and evening bleed into one<\/p>\n<p>Time to honor the present in deep breaths<\/p>\n<p>The past and the future matter not<\/p>\n<p>Birth and death but one cosmic cycle<\/p>\n<p>Forever\u2019s an imaginary ephemeral thing<\/p>\n<p>Today challenges us to find a vigorous victory<\/p>\n<p>To walk it with determined, slow steps<\/p>\n<p>Into the arms of beautiful oblivion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a thump the wooden gong rings true Mindful melody summoning all to the zendo Morning and evening bleed into one Time to honor the present in deep breaths The past and the future matter not Birth and death but one cosmic cycle Forever\u2019s an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1065,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115093","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\/1065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115106,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115093\/revisions\/115106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}