{"id":115319,"date":"2022-06-25T19:23:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=115319"},"modified":"2022-06-25T19:23:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:23:41","slug":"the-best-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-best-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Humour touches the essence of humanity.<br \/>\nAs the world grows dreary, one simple joke,<br \/>\naction, or musing can bring the sun back<br \/>\nbefore those smiling. So bright that words sting<\/p>\n<p>and the belly aches. Tears shed (happy<br \/>\none\u2019s, I promise). All can be united by<br \/>\nthe simple action of experiencing the joy<\/p>\n<p>that has been given, and releasing<br \/>\nthese blessings back into the world<br \/>\nfor others to grasp, and send through<\/p>\n<p>their limbs. A calming, brightening ritual,<br \/>\nno matter the socially constructed divisions.<\/p>\n<p>All can smile hard with one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humour touches the essence of humanity. As the world grows dreary, one simple joke, action, or musing can bring the sun back before those smiling. So bright that words sting and the belly aches. Tears shed (happy one\u2019s, I promise). All can be united by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115319","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\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115362,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115319\/revisions\/115362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}