“Everything starts somewhere…”
\nThough knowing where depends
\nOn what you mean by “start”
\nOr “everything”.<\/p>\n
Something starts everywhere,
\nThe chain of consequence
\nCannot be predicted
\nPrecisely.<\/p>\n
Freedom to make a choice
\nFreedom to take the chance
\nIs meaningless without
\nConsequence.<\/p>\n
Forge your link in the chain,
\nOwn\u00a0neither more nor less
\nThan your contribution
\nTo history.<\/p>\n
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather<\/em> “Everything starts somewhere…” Though knowing where depends On what you mean by “start” Or “everything”. Something starts everywhere, The chain of consequence Cannot be predicted Precisely. Freedom to make a choice Freedom to take the chance Is meaningless without Consequence. Forge your link in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[569,1056,1010],"class_list":["post-12969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-discworld","tag-hour-19-unofficial","tag-nineteenth-hour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12969","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\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13067,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12969\/revisions\/13067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(opening line)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"