{"id":133379,"date":"2023-09-02T12:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133379"},"modified":"2023-09-02T16:43:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:43:03","slug":"shameful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/shameful\/","title":{"rendered":"Shameful"},"content":{"rendered":"

after GK Chesterton<\/p>\n

“For Honour!” cries the foolish wretch
\n“I cannot compromise!”
\nThe modern wise philosopher
\nJust shakes their head and sighs.<\/p>\n

What use is honour to us now
\nExcept for making waves?
\nGo with the flow, to stand one’s ground
\nIs no way to behave.<\/p>\n

You’ll make the rest of us look bad
\nWith your old-fashioned views.
\nYou’ll have to change the way you feel
\nOr be declared a prude.<\/p>\n

Oh, keep your stupid honour then;
\nBut you and I are done!
\nFor honour is a foolish thing \u2014
\nI’m proud to say I’ve none.<\/p>\n

\n

“Men were ashamed of honour; but we were not ashamed”
\n\u2014 From the dedication poem for\u00a0The Man Who was Thursday<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

after GK Chesterton “For Honour!” cries the foolish wretch “I cannot compromise!” The modern wise philosopher Just shakes their head and sighs. What use is honour to us now Except for making waves? Go with the flow, to stand one’s ground Is no way to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6036],"class_list":["post-133379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-re-used-prompt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133379","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\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133699,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133379\/revisions\/133699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}