{"id":129580,"date":"2023-09-02T12:50:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129580"},"modified":"2023-09-02T12:50:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:50:35","slug":"hour-4-raven-whispers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-4-raven-whispers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 4&#8211;Raven Whispers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I come to tell you<\/p>\n<p>not to worry<\/p>\n<p>Pink clouds carry on as they should<\/p>\n<p>Winds carry seeds<\/p>\n<p>Ice melts<\/p>\n<p>Fire burns<\/p>\n<p>The Earth cares for herself<\/p>\n<p>Human, you are no less mysterious than<\/p>\n<p>the salmon<\/p>\n<p>You both work so hard<\/p>\n<p>only to reach death<\/p>\n<p>The chain is unbroken<\/p>\n<p>You see yourself as separate from Nature<\/p>\n<p>This is a fallacy<\/p>\n<p>You are Nature as are we<\/p>\n<p>Each is consumed in the end<\/p>\n<p>only to live on<\/p>\n<p>as nourishment for some other beast<\/p>\n<p>If this be cause to furrow your brow<\/p>\n<p>please know that your suffering is not mandatory<\/p>\n<p>Choose it if you wish<\/p>\n<p>or consider for a moment the glory<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I come to tell you not to worry Pink clouds carry on as they should Winds carry seeds Ice melts Fire burns The Earth cares for herself Human, you are no less mysterious than the salmon You both work so hard only to reach death&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129580","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\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130343,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129580\/revisions\/130343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}