{"id":12575,"date":"2015-06-14T01:30:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T05:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12575"},"modified":"2015-06-14T01:30:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T05:30:45","slug":"save-the-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/save-the-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leave your children, you can have more<br \/>\nForget your pets, new ones can be found<br \/>\nForget your car, it is a dead weight<br \/>\nForget your clothes, they will turn to dust<\/p>\n<p>Books. Save your books. Save as many as your two arms can carry.<br \/>\nNo, as your two shoulders can carry. A backpack full of books<br \/>\nSave them.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s double helpful you see, because you&#8217;re removing fuel from the fire.<br \/>\nIn time, the pages will be curled from frequency of use<br \/>\ninstead of the instant heat of flames<br \/>\nThose words in books you see, when they&#8217;re gone, they&#8217;re gone forever<br \/>\nNo flotsam floating in the sludge<br \/>\nAnd in space at the end of the world, just carbon will fill the air.<br \/>\nEven the person whose memorized their words will pass.<br \/>\nAnd the words, the wisdom will be gone forever.<br \/>\nTheir words cannot be written on earth or air and spun into cloth.<br \/>\nThe books are worth saving.<br \/>\nAlways save the books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave your children, you can have more Forget your pets, new ones can be found Forget your car, it is a dead weight Forget your clothes, they will turn to dust Books. Save your books. Save as many as your two arms can carry. No,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":330,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[950],"class_list":["post-12575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575","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\/330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12597,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575\/revisions\/12597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}