{"id":120963,"date":"2022-06-26T05:40:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T09:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=120963"},"modified":"2022-06-26T09:08:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T13:08:52","slug":"stand-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/stand-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your voice is shaking<br \/>\nQuivering lips<br \/>\nIn want to say something<br \/>\nBut maintaining silence<br \/>\nYou watch the show<br \/>\nAs it unfolds<br \/>\nA story to gather<br \/>\nEnough info<br \/>\nTo make decisions<br \/>\nBased on yourself<br \/>\nNot in line with beliefs<br \/>\nHeld deep within your hearts.<br \/>\nOthers opened their eyes<br \/>\nAnd spoke on behalf<br \/>\nAnd recognized the truth<br \/>\nWhen they told on themselves<br \/>\nYet none reach out.<br \/>\nNo one says a word<br \/>\nOr utters a sound<br \/>\nJust watching on the sidelines<br \/>\nOn the bleachers<br \/>\nWhile traitors hide beneath<br \/>\nThrowing stones and<br \/>\nHiding hands.<br \/>\nWho would stand for you<br \/>\nIf you were me?<br \/>\nI&#8217;m an army of one<br \/>\nAgainst a battle on four fronts<br \/>\nTaking the blows<br \/>\nTurning my cheek to face one<br \/>\nTo get bludgeoned by another<br \/>\nAs I fight back<br \/>\nOn my own<br \/>\nAnd stand up for myself.<br \/>\nAn army of one, or so I thought<br \/>\nBut a legion at my side<br \/>\nA Divine team I owe my life<br \/>\nAnd God taking the front<br \/>\nMy ancestors at my back<br \/>\nSurrounded by angels and guides<br \/>\nWith a butterfly resting upon my shoulder.<br \/>\nI stand up for truth<br \/>\nSo what will you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your voice is shaking Quivering lips In want to say something But maintaining silence You watch the show As it unfolds A story to gather Enough info To make decisions Based on yourself Not in line with beliefs Held deep within your hearts. Others opened&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1485,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120963","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\/1485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121013,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120963\/revisions\/121013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}