{"id":121697,"date":"2022-06-26T07:09:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=121697"},"modified":"2022-06-26T07:09:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:09:50","slug":"compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toddlers and New Yorkers, not always so different.<br \/>\nHow so?<br \/>\nBoth stomp about their worlds in a big hurry.<br \/>\nToddlers run after each other<br \/>\nAway from you<br \/>\nInto danger<br \/>\nWith a gusto<br \/>\nLike a commuter trying to cram on before the train doors shut.<\/p>\n<p>The busy and stomping steamroll over toes, bruise feelings<br \/>\nNo intentionality.<br \/>\nJust living their big world.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes one falls down.<br \/>\nAnother will go over and pat them on the head<br \/>\nOr on the back<br \/>\nOffer a hug<br \/>\nYou think,<br \/>\nGosh, they are human after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toddlers and New Yorkers, not always so different. How so? Both stomp about their worlds in a big hurry. Toddlers run after each other Away from you Into danger With a gusto Like a commuter trying to cram on before the train doors shut. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121697","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\/1392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121793,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121697\/revisions\/121793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}