{"id":130323,"date":"2023-09-02T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=130323"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:17:00","slug":"130323","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/130323\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poem 4# Marriage: |Relic of Culture<\/p>\n<p>Once I asked my celibate neighbour<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why ain&#8217;t you married.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like a tidal boomerang he had thrown back the questions, &#8220;why are you married?.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But while my response were building up like the whirlwind in prep stage,<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;begin with a definition of marriage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Memory lost won&#8217;t take as souvenir the Rememberance I had of how detailed I was answering him.<\/p>\n<p>Had he not listened like a mountain to a flaming bushfire or an Iroko tree nodding only its heads of branches to stormy dam pour?.<\/p>\n<p>Have you a knowledge of the effect of a meeting live wire? the sparks in his eyes at my summarised closure of marriage as &#8216;social contract&#8217; goes miles beyond that effect.<\/p>\n<p>He said so much, my prejudiced stinginess won&#8217;t allowed me to share with you all but, hear this, &#8220;contracts, that both contractors had no saying it its foundational pros and cons as marriage is but a Relic of culture!.&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poem 4# Marriage: |Relic of Culture Once I asked my celibate neighbour &#8220;Why ain&#8217;t you married.&#8221; Like a tidal boomerang he had thrown back the questions, &#8220;why are you married?.&#8221; But while my response were building up like the whirlwind in prep stage, He added,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130323","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\/5280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130711,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130323\/revisions\/130711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}