{"id":116978,"date":"2022-06-25T21:59:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T01:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=116978"},"modified":"2022-06-25T22:40:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T02:40:15","slug":"no-15-a-race-of-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/no-15-a-race-of-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 15: A Race of Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Ancient humans were a paradox of\r\nGenius, intellect, cruelty, and depravity\r\n\r\nAstounding feats of engineering and construction\r\nWere all achieved on the backs of slaves\r\n\r\nCloser to home the industrial revolution\r\nCreated machines to make life easier progressive\r\n\r\nSteam engines, flying wings, automobiles\r\nAchieved their peak as instruments of war\r\n\r\nHumans take the best of inventions for humankind\r\nPervert it for the worst against the same\r\n\r\nThis still holds true for our time as technology is used\r\nTo hack our vulnerable systems -- just because \"they\" can\r\n\r\nWe humans, no matter, our good intentions\r\nCannot help but sully a decent thing<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient humans were a paradox of Genius, intellect, cruelty, and depravity Astounding feats of engineering and construction Were all achieved on the backs of slaves Closer to home the industrial revolution Created machines to make life easier progressive Steam engines, flying wings, automobiles Achieved their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116978","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\/2354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117102,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116978\/revisions\/117102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}