{"id":118269,"date":"2022-06-26T00:13:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T04:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=118269"},"modified":"2022-06-26T00:13:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T04:13:21","slug":"defined-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/defined-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Defined me"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>lust \u02c8l\u0259st  \\<br \/>\n1: usually intense or unbridled sexual desire: He was motivated more by lust than by love. 2a: an intense longing: CRAVING a lust to succeed 2b: ENTHUSIASM, EAGERNESS they admired his lust for life<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There have been times in my life<br \/>\nI have certainly lusted<br \/>\nappropriately, and not <\/p>\n<p>semantically, literally, morally<br \/>\nmy lustful natures have<br \/>\ntaken many forms<\/p>\n<p>any theologian, of any<br \/>\ndogmatic stripe<br \/>\nwill tell you lust is a<br \/>\nperennial top-ten fave<br \/>\nfor adherents and<br \/>\nbest-seller for clergy<br \/>\nmany a preacher has<br \/>\nmade his bones<br \/>\nrailing against his flock<br \/>\njumping someone else\u2019s<br \/>\nThere have been times in my life<br \/>\nI have certainly lusted<br \/>\nappropriately, and not <\/p>\n<p>I could recite you a list \u2013 names,<br \/>\nplaces, circumstances<br \/>\nconsequences, results <\/p>\n<p>any theologian, of any<br \/>\ndogmatic stripe<br \/>\ncould find fault<br \/>\nwith my logic<br \/>\nnon-apologetics<br \/>\nbut hey I\u2019m not<br \/>\nwriting scripture<br \/>\nI\u2019m just a poet<br \/>\nrailing against nothing<br \/>\nsimply stating fact<\/p>\n<p>There have been times in my life<br \/>\nwhen lust for life has<br \/>\nmoved to do good<\/p>\n<p>Call it craving, enthusiasm \u2013 eager<br \/>\nI have been, eager I<br \/>\nwill remain in my lust for keeping on<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2022<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lust \u02c8l\u0259st \\ 1: usually intense or unbridled sexual desire: He was motivated more by lust than by love. 2a: an intense longing: CRAVING a lust to succeed 2b: ENTHUSIASM, EAGERNESS they admired his lust for life There have been times in my life I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441,1],"tags":[5396,5411,5412],"class_list":["post-118269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-uncategorized","tag-2022hour15","tag-2022-prompt-15","tag-2022-prompt-15-lust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118269","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118299,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118269\/revisions\/118299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}