{"id":133091,"date":"2023-09-02T15:58:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133091"},"modified":"2023-09-22T11:05:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T15:05:34","slug":"hour-eight-over-the-edge-of-a-flat-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-eight-over-the-edge-of-a-flat-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"HOUR EIGHT \u2013 View Over the Edge of a Flat Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt from Hour Six for Hour Eight<\/p>\n<p>I see hellfire rising to embrace the follies of mankind,<\/p>\n<p>a burning platter of human flesh falling from the earth into the abyss.<\/p>\n<p>Evil does exist but only in the hearts and minds of the arrogant, the selfish.<\/p>\n<p>No godlike being has condemned us, we have done that ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>What the world needs now is love.<\/p>\n<p>Redemption? Is that possible?<\/p>\n<p>Turning our thoughts outward<\/p>\n<p>from our self-centred preoccupations?<\/p>\n<p>How many need to protest, to write, to sing, to cry, to scream,<\/p>\n<p>Enough is enough?<\/p>\n<p>Questions without answers.<\/p>\n<p>Answers without actions.<\/p>\n<p>I see an earth reborn, free of humanity,<\/p>\n<p>like the phoenix arising from the ashes,<\/p>\n<p>a fertile planet, abundant with life,<\/p>\n<p>no longer struggling to survive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt from Hour Six for Hour Eight I see hellfire rising to embrace the follies of mankind, a burning platter of human flesh falling from the earth into the abyss. Evil does exist but only in the hearts and minds of the arrogant, the selfish&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133091","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\/1411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145565,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133091\/revisions\/145565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}