{"id":120287,"date":"2022-06-26T04:24:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=120287"},"modified":"2022-07-06T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T13:51:00","slug":"8-books-for-the-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/8-books-for-the-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"8. Books for the Beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you are tired of treading the beaten path\/<br \/>\nWhen day after day dawns and dies the same way\/<br \/>\nWhen the material world appears ephemeral\/<br \/>\nWhen the values you cherished backbite you\/<br \/>\nWhen the mind-sea is churned by turbulent winds\/<br \/>\n&#8216;Tis time to enter a new kindergarten.<br \/>\nGive your life a second start.<br \/>\nThe books for beginners are simple and few in number.<br \/>\nMercy, compassion and self-introspection\/<br \/>\n<em>are<\/em> the shining beacons that will light your way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are tired of treading the beaten path\/ When day after day dawns and dies the same way\/ When the material world appears ephemeral\/ When the values you cherished backbite you\/ When the mind-sea is churned by turbulent winds\/ &#8216;Tis time to enter a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4548,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120287","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\/4548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120287"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124679,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120287\/revisions\/124679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}