{"id":132414,"date":"2023-09-02T15:23:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=132414"},"modified":"2023-09-02T15:51:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:51:06","slug":"hour-seven-an-empty-pod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-seven-an-empty-pod\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Seven: An Empty Pod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seek and you shall surrender, the old sage sang,<\/p>\n<p>but I turned away, mumbling in response, &#8220;Oh, yeah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The eager ones agreed and kissed his brittle, sun-crusted feet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Keep walking the straight and high, narrow and low road;<\/p>\n<p>Seek and you shall surrender, the old sage sang, and<\/p>\n<p>The rebels tossed stony glares at the old man&#8217;s knees.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No path is too steep to fall on, no caves too dark to see,<\/p>\n<p>but I had nothing, a mind blanked out, an empty pod,<\/p>\n<p>so I turned away, mumbling in response, &#8220;Oh, yeah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Peace is one step more, two to each side, a dance,<\/p>\n<p>but I only shook my head and snorted, &#8220;Sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The eager ones agreed and kissed his brittle, sun-crusted feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seek and you shall surrender, the old sage sang, but I turned away, mumbling in response, &#8220;Oh, yeah.&#8221; The eager ones agreed and kissed his brittle, sun-crusted feet. &nbsp; Keep walking the straight and high, narrow and low road; Seek and you shall surrender, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132414","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132414"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133012,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132414\/revisions\/133012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}