{"id":116187,"date":"2022-06-25T21:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T01:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=116187"},"modified":"2022-06-25T21:09:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T01:09:33","slug":"116187","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/116187\/","title":{"rendered":"Gathering Peace (hour 12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Gathering again mouths muted,<\/p>\n<p>no sound but music here<\/p>\n<p>to balance the cruel violence<\/p>\n<p>the ugly world does bear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Smiles and hugs replace words,<\/p>\n<p>gestures of love and peace<\/p>\n<p>replace the earthly hate and war<\/p>\n<p>in outsiders\u2019 collective face.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No masks they wear,<\/p>\n<p>covers cause unease and loathing<\/p>\n<p>this is opposite the point<\/p>\n<p>of gathering without binding<\/p>\n<p>breathing truths, not undermining.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sandra Johnson, June 25, 2022<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gathering again mouths muted, no sound but music here to balance the cruel violence the ugly world does bear. &nbsp; Smiles and hugs replace words, gestures of love and peace replace the earthly hate and war in outsiders\u2019 collective face. &nbsp; No masks they wear,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116187","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\/1299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116690,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116187\/revisions\/116690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}