{"id":123308,"date":"2022-06-26T11:51:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T15:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=123308"},"modified":"2022-06-26T11:53:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T15:53:06","slug":"beyond-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/beyond-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have learnt that beyond the breezy \u2018 I\u2019m fine thank you&#8217; response to our usual \u2018How are you?&#8217;<br \/>\nCan lie heartbreak, discouragement, pain and so much sorrow<br \/>\nThe \u2018I\u2019m fine thank you\u2019 is an automatic default setting kind of answer<br \/>\nBut, it takes a true friend, a sensitive one to decipher what lies just underneath the mechanical reply<br \/>\nA lot of people are hurting, a smile, a kind word or even a gift can keep someone going, give a renewed faith in humanity, make one stronger and happier<br \/>\nLife happens to all of us. No one is immune and so in this journey, we need each other&#8217;s shoulder to lean on intermittently.<br \/>\nBe the friend who sees beyond the fa\u00e7ade and offers safe harbor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have learnt that beyond the breezy \u2018 I\u2019m fine thank you&#8217; response to our usual \u2018How are you?&#8217; Can lie heartbreak, discouragement, pain and so much sorrow The \u2018I\u2019m fine thank you\u2019 is an automatic default setting kind of answer But, it takes a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1421,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123308","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\/1421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123309,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123308\/revisions\/123309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}