{"id":12381,"date":"2015-06-14T00:46:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T04:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12381"},"modified":"2015-06-14T01:26:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T05:26:31","slug":"mta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/mta\/","title":{"rendered":"MTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYC has very talented individuals with great potential for greatness. And I will say you find it at the MTA.<br \/>\nI had tears rolling down my face when I attentively listen to one of the youngest poet I seen so far. He it&#8217;s between the  age 12 and 14. I don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s more painful seen him work the trains for his next meal and not enjoying his childhood how he is suppose to. Not been able to give him at least a dollar since I&#8217;m only have a monthly metro card, seen how very little other individual care or the actual lines of his poetry. If I had to describe his poetry;<br \/>\nI will say it was written down in blood and say out loud with pain. All I had to offer was a beautiful prayer for him to get the opportunity In this life to be successful with the blessing of his talent as a great poet. I do not know his name, but I would always remember his face and the title of his poetry &#8220;I say&#8221; which describe his upbringing and pain and how he strive for the best. I will name you street younger survivor.<br \/>\nGod bless you my dear poet, you deserve the best.<br \/>\n\u2014Marquez Meriyen <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYC has very talented individuals with great potential for greatness. And I will say you find it at the MTA. I had tears rolling down my face when I attentively listen to one of the youngest poet I seen so far. He it&#8217;s between the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[955],"class_list":["post-12381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-955"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12381","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12389,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12381\/revisions\/12389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}