{"id":120587,"date":"2022-06-26T05:12:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T09:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=120587"},"modified":"2022-06-28T11:49:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T15:49:36","slug":"leviathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/leviathan\/","title":{"rendered":"Leviathan (Hour 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They call you leviathan,<\/p>\n<p>drinker of the ocean,<\/p>\n<p>ruler of the deep,<\/p>\n<p>eater of countless fish,<\/p>\n<p>belching out your satisfaction<\/p>\n<p>in tsunamis and earthquakes,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>yet your majesty remains<\/p>\n<p>questionable<\/p>\n<p>ridiculous,<\/p>\n<p>for he who must rule<\/p>\n<p>should rule in entirety<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the oceans still swirl proudly<\/p>\n<p>the waters remain in countless volumes<\/p>\n<p>and you have not yet drank it all up<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the sea life still flourishes<\/p>\n<p>the fauna and its beauty.<\/p>\n<p>the mermaids still hold court<\/p>\n<p>in the palaces of the sea,<\/p>\n<p>and you, leviathan, who do you rule over?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>it tells, therefore, of a greater Being,<\/p>\n<p>Creator of it all, the Almighty<\/p>\n<p>in the tiniest of whose hands<\/p>\n<p>the entire universe remains,<\/p>\n<p>before whom the leviathan<\/p>\n<p>is but a tiny ant.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They call you leviathan, drinker of the ocean, ruler of the deep, eater of countless fish, belching out your satisfaction in tsunamis and earthquakes, &nbsp; yet your majesty remains questionable ridiculous, for he who must rule should rule in entirety &nbsp; the oceans still swirl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120587","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\/4014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124126,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120587\/revisions\/124126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}