{"id":123650,"date":"2022-06-26T22:32:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T02:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=123650"},"modified":"2022-06-26T22:32:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T02:32:15","slug":"there-must-be-balance-hour-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/there-must-be-balance-hour-16\/","title":{"rendered":"There Must Be Balance (Hour 16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tornadoes and cyclones<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>increasing each year<\/p>\n<p>Volcanoes and earthquakes<\/p>\n<p>strike millions with fear<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The sun grows hotter<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>each June and July<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s snowfall in Florida<\/p>\n<p>no one is quite sure why<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>People are hungry and angrier now<\/p>\n<p>our small planet bursting her seams<\/p>\n<p>Cars and homes running on oil<\/p>\n<p>leading us downhill making us mean<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Politics laced with self serving greed<\/p>\n<p>running each country into the ground<\/p>\n<p>The ones who could change things<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>never bother to make a sound<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t help but wonder<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t help but cry from the time<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>of my childhood and on up to now<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Why is the earth in this pantomime?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tornadoes and cyclones\u00a0 increasing each year Volcanoes and earthquakes strike millions with fear\u00a0 The sun grows hotter\u00a0 each June and July\u00a0 There\u2019s snowfall in Florida no one is quite sure why\u00a0 &nbsp; People are hungry and angrier now our small planet bursting her seams Cars&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123650","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\/795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123652,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123650\/revisions\/123652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}