{"id":125406,"date":"2023-05-31T18:49:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T22:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=125406"},"modified":"2023-05-31T18:49:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T22:49:38","slug":"the-thorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/the-thorn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus Christ!<\/p>\n<p>He wore a whole crown of them<br \/>\nin honor of the one you<br \/>\nstuck in your side.<\/p>\n<p>You did it to yourself,<br \/>\nand now it pains you<br \/>\nto know you did it<\/p>\n<p>to yourself!<\/p>\n<p>I am sad for the pain&#8230;<br \/>\nthe pain you feel&#8230;<br \/>\nthe pain that leads you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>the pain that breeds<br \/>\nyour disdain for humanity.<br \/>\nI cried for you last week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>for your soul!<\/p>\n<p>You read each day<br \/>\nhow the world hates<br \/>\nwhat you did.<\/p>\n<p>You wonder how<br \/>\nyou so enjoyed it,<br \/>\nreveling in your power&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>using lust!<\/p>\n<p>Prayers for the ugly<br \/>\nare so difficult,<br \/>\nbut the tears were real.<\/p>\n<p>I cried for you last week<br \/>\nas death stands before you.<br \/>\nWhat will you say when HE<\/p>\n<p>asks about that thorn?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus Christ! He wore a whole crown of them in honor of the one you stuck in your side. You did it to yourself, and now it pains you to know you did it to yourself! I am sad for the pain&#8230; the pain you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5731,5730,2961,308,1750,214],"class_list":["post-125406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-criminals","tag-crown-of-thorns","tag-forgiveness","tag-hate","tag-jesus","tag-lust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125406","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125407,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125406\/revisions\/125407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}