{"id":130679,"date":"2023-09-02T13:19:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=130679"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:19:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:19:17","slug":"when-you-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/when-you-see\/","title":{"rendered":"When you see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hope is impossible when you look,<br \/>\nand actually see,<br \/>\nwhen you witness the fires,<br \/>\nthe wild winds and the<br \/>\nferocious rains.<\/p>\n<p>Hope is impossible when you feel the heat<br \/>\nof your silver earrings against your neck<br \/>\nafter minutes outside and you pray<br \/>\nthat the power grid doesn&#8217;t fail.<\/p>\n<p>Hope is impossible when you listen<br \/>\nto the myths being spun by<br \/>\nthose who don&#8217;t want to see change and instead<br \/>\nwant to bank on destruction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hope is impossible when you comprehend<br \/>\nthousands of penguin chicks<br \/>\ndrowning on melting ice and the deaths of<br \/>\ndeer and otters and falcons and \u2013 then \u2013<br \/>\nus, our family and friends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hope is impossible when<br \/>\nyou know it is only getting more<br \/>\ndire and<br \/>\nthere is nothing, just nothing,<br \/>\nto do to stem<br \/>\nthe tide of despair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope is impossible when you look, and actually see, when you witness the fires, the wild winds and the ferocious rains. Hope is impossible when you feel the heat of your silver earrings against your neck after minutes outside and you pray that the power&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130679","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\/1287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130748,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130679\/revisions\/130748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}