{"id":132082,"date":"2023-09-02T14:46:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=132082"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:46:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:46:30","slug":"zeus-is-a-jerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/zeus-is-a-jerk\/","title":{"rendered":"Zeus is a Jerk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Plato said,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once we were whole<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">four arms, four legs, and two heads<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We had long conversations with ourselves<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and assisted each other in daily life<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We were never alone<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But then Zeus<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(the actual reason for 90% of drama in Greek mythology)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">threw down thunderbolts<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and split us in half<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His reasoning being<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">we would gain too much power<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thus leaving us doomed<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to wander the earth forever<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in search of our other half<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">so that we could be whole again<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zeus just had to be a jerk, didn\u2019t he?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plato said, Once we were whole four arms, four legs, and two heads We had long conversations with ourselves and assisted each other in daily life We were never alone &nbsp; But then Zeus (the actual reason for 90% of drama in Greek mythology) threw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441],"tags":[5979,5980,5978,2583,5981],"class_list":["post-132082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-greek-mythology","tag-plato","tag-soulmates","tag-zeus","tag-zeus-cant-keep-it-in-his-pants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132082","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132092,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132082\/revisions\/132092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}