{"id":126448,"date":"2023-09-02T14:31:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=126448"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:31:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:31:06","slug":"hour-5-ego-as-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-5-ego-as-a-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 5: Ego as a Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.<\/p>\n<p>That is why, my dear, I am not insane but merely a genius.<\/p>\n<p>No two of my canvases will resemble each other,<\/p>\n<p>As I am a talented man of well-rounded abilities<\/p>\n<p>Painting music, composing poems, and singing in color.<\/p>\n<p>I carefully collect each shade of crimson and ultramarine and ochre<\/p>\n<p>To recreate portraits of skin and blood and trees and air, pumping through a web<\/p>\n<p>Of eternal creativity begging to be released by only my hand; the hand that feeds.<\/p>\n<p>I build my own instruments of leather and wood, breathing in the soft wind of legacy<\/p>\n<p>In my palms, in the notes of this page, in the music to be sung forever.<\/p>\n<p>I have created a life of art for my infinite audience and<\/p>\n<p>I have committed no crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Allowing the world to kill me off has become my sin;<\/p>\n<p>Through the fog, you will never find anyone else<\/p>\n<p>As crazy as me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. That is why, my dear, I am not insane but merely a genius. No two of my canvases will resemble each other, As I am a talented man of well-rounded abilities&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4828,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126448","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\/4828"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131868,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126448\/revisions\/131868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}