{"id":117353,"date":"2022-06-25T22:28:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T02:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=117353"},"modified":"2022-06-25T22:28:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T02:28:12","slug":"things-good-and-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/things-good-and-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Things; Good and bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good-bad, joy-sorrow ; the eternal twin opposites<br \/>\nTwo sides of the same coin, conjoined by fate<br \/>\nAre the four wheels of your life-chakra<br \/>\nInterspersing together, emulating each other, outdoing the other<br \/>\nBut can never wishone other away<br \/>\nI have been well- prepared to receive anything they decide to bestow upon me<br \/>\nAnd yet, when tragedy struck, it hit me like a thousand thunderbolts&#8230;<br \/>\nBad times; eveything went wrong in the worst possible way<br \/>\nFrom riches to rags, from a huge family to being abandoned alone on the streets,<br \/>\nThis series of misfortunes seemed to be never-ending<br \/>\nAnd then came true the saying,&#8221;This too shall pass&#8221;<br \/>\nBe it joy or sorrow and the dark clouds made way<br \/>\nFor rainbow joys and star &#8211; studded dreams<br \/>\nWhat good does come out of bad, you ask?<br \/>\nI will say it&#8217;s wisdom to realize everything is transitionary<br \/>\nAnd to learn who are the real well-wishers<br \/>\nAnd to stay put; have faith in the matrix of time<br \/>\nWinter be replaced by spring soon enough&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good-bad, joy-sorrow ; the eternal twin opposites Two sides of the same coin, conjoined by fate Are the four wheels of your life-chakra Interspersing together, emulating each other, outdoing the other But can never wishone other away I have been well- prepared to receive anything&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4553,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117353","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\/4553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117366,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117353\/revisions\/117366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}