{"id":11594,"date":"2015-06-13T22:02:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T02:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=11594"},"modified":"2015-06-14T08:48:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T12:48:10","slug":"the-road-not-taken-hour-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/the-road-not-taken-hour-13\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road Not Taken (hour 13)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two roads in life,<br \/>\nI am not able to travel on both,<br \/>\nI had a chance to stood before both,<br \/>\none was straight and wide,<br \/>\nThe other was narrow and had alot of obstacles,<br \/>\nit was over grown with alot of bushes,<\/p>\n<p>I now had to make a choice,<br \/>\nshould I take the straight and wide ,<br \/>\nor the narrow and full of obstacles,<br \/>\nMy heart skipped a beat, it was in my throat;<br \/>\nAs i thought about what my choice will be,<br \/>\nI was tired and confused from looking and trying to decide,<\/p>\n<p>I chose to go on the narrow path<br \/>\nBecause it was less trodden and Heaven.<br \/>\nwill be my grand reward for pressing on!<br \/>\nFaith chose me, i did not chose faith,<br \/>\nso i pushed forward and never looked back.<\/p>\n<p>I am proud to say this, with out a doubt<br \/>\nsomewhere down the road in the future:<br \/>\nTwo roads one to life and the other to destruction, and I\u2014<br \/>\nI chose the one no one chose to travel on,<br \/>\nThat is what made me who I am today.<\/p>\n<p>The courage I have found,<br \/>\nhas made me turn around,<br \/>\nOnly one road I am walking,<br \/>\nIn my life time,<br \/>\nOnly one Road that leads to life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Green-Fields.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Green-Fields-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"Green Fields\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Green-Fields-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Green-Fields.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two roads in life, I am not able to travel on both, I had a chance to stood before both, one was straight and wide, The other was narrow and had alot of obstacles, it was over grown with alot of bushes, I now had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11594","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\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11711,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11594\/revisions\/11711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}