{"id":127436,"date":"2023-09-02T10:43:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127436"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:43:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:43:02","slug":"winds-of-pain-hour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/winds-of-pain-hour-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Winds of Pain, Hour 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*For the people of Lahaina and Kula*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an edge to these winds<\/p>\n<p>These gusts of wrath<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A sharp, deadly edge<\/p>\n<p>Born in storm cells, creating hurricanes<\/p>\n<p>Transmuting spark to flame to raging firestorm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These winds carry pain<\/p>\n<p>Carry the ashes, the remnants of destroyed homes<\/p>\n<p>Destroyed dreams<\/p>\n<p>Destroyed lives<\/p>\n<p>Destroyed culture<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The wind blows, impassive, uncaring&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Like the parasitic vultures that feast upon the vulnerable<\/p>\n<p>Like those who see tragedy as opportunity<\/p>\n<p>Like disaster capitalism<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These winds bring change<\/p>\n<p>In form of grief stricken ohana<\/p>\n<p>In form of a devastated community<\/p>\n<p>In form of unstoppable flame<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Winds of loss<\/p>\n<p>Winds of greatest cost<\/p>\n<p>Winds of pain<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*For the people of Lahaina and Kula* &nbsp; There&#8217;s an edge to these winds These gusts of wrath &nbsp; A sharp, deadly edge Born in storm cells, creating hurricanes Transmuting spark to flame to raging firestorm &nbsp; These winds carry pain Carry the ashes, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":781,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127436","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\/781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128364,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127436\/revisions\/128364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}