{"id":12183,"date":"2015-06-14T00:26:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T04:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12183"},"modified":"2015-06-14T00:26:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T04:26:22","slug":"sunday-schooled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/sunday-schooled\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Schooled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unassuming children for truth they reach<\/p>\n<p>Starched pants and pleated shirts staring eyes wide<\/p>\n<p>Pilgrims all pew perched in high holy pride<\/p>\n<p>Eager innocence seeking what men preach<\/p>\n<p>Following along with the rhythmic stride<\/p>\n<p>Narrating illustrated thoughts to each<\/p>\n<p>Selective scriptures for the soul to ride<\/p>\n<p>Contradictions that confuse what men teach<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How the altar of disappointment brings<\/p>\n<p>Naive babes to be fed the truth that cries<\/p>\n<p>Animated parables\u00a0pulling strings<\/p>\n<p>Fooling all who would be honest and wise<\/p>\n<p>Enamored by the dancing shiny things<\/p>\n<p>Until they all crave the taste of men&#8217;s lies<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>by Karen Sullivan<\/p>\n<p>Form: Petrarchan Sonnet<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unassuming children for truth they reach Starched pants and pleated shirts staring eyes wide Pilgrims all pew perched in high holy pride Eager innocence seeking what men preach Following along with the rhythmic stride Narrating illustrated thoughts to each Selective scriptures for the soul to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[912],"class_list":["post-12183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-poetrymarathon2015-karensullivan-petrarchansonnet-verseofbarbara-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183","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\/681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12322,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12183\/revisions\/12322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}