{"id":121237,"date":"2022-06-26T06:09:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T10:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=121237"},"modified":"2022-07-11T20:30:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T00:30:07","slug":"ayo-8th-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/ayo-8th-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c0y\u00f3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They say &#8220;an African never reads&#8221; [so hide knowledge in a book]&#8221;&#8230;darken the path, put out the light.<br \/>\nThen watch how the turn of events today making this sound so right<\/p>\n<p>Demo-cracy can be or maybe is a Demon gone crazy<br \/>\nTelling us how &#8220;all we human BEANS, should &#8216;STEW&#8217; well together, so why on earth then did they leave out RICE&#8221;?<br \/>\nPAYING our leaders to miss-lead<br \/>\nPlus them never getting it right is a difference between black and white<br \/>\nBut they&#8217;re beginning to look similar, right?<\/p>\n<p>A blessing or a curse?<br \/>\nWhatever&#8230;we already made it worse.<br \/>\nGifted a Trojan horse, and now we&#8217;re still looking for the purse.<br \/>\nDumbfounded with &#8216;recycled&#8217; speeches promissory of a future filled with riches.<br \/>\nStill, who cares about present hour needs&#8230;right?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be too quick to answer the question nor too slow to question your answer.<\/p>\n<p>Going around in circles will only create a pattern<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s still the same bus stops&#8230; there&#8217;s nothing new!<br \/>\nSo while we wait, care to join me in a game of \u00e0y\u00f3? One understood by just a few.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say &#8220;an African never reads&#8221; [so hide knowledge in a book]&#8221;&#8230;darken the path, put out the light. Then watch how the turn of events today making this sound so right Demo-cracy can be or maybe is a Demon gone crazy Telling us how &#8220;all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121237","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\/4758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124848,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121237\/revisions\/124848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}