{"id":135664,"date":"2023-09-02T19:05:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=135664"},"modified":"2023-09-02T19:05:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:05:26","slug":"water-water-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/water-water-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Water, Water Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is love if not welcoming you in from the heat with a cool glass of water?<\/p>\n<p>The seas bubble with the collateral damage of the vainglorious<br \/>\nwho rush to play in the water<br \/>\nwhile the Dine thirst in an empty basin.<br \/>\nThe red man has to beg to access the waters that feed the red river,<br \/>\nbut the Titans relish in allowing only brackish waters.<\/p>\n<p>When the People of Earth meet Titans (Titans who feel that they are something more than superfluous self-important men),<br \/>\nThe People have to explain basic principles.<br \/>\nHave to explain that water is a necessity.<br \/>\nHave to explain that promises are supposed to be kept.<br \/>\nHave to explain that if the Titans were less wasteful,<br \/>\nthe Earth would provide everything that man needs.<\/p>\n<p>But Titans have never been good with humility<br \/>\nThey know nothing of harmony<br \/>\nAnd always fight for supremacy of everything<br \/>\nfrom the cosmos to the Dine\u2019s right to come home to a cool glass of drinkable water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is love if not welcoming you in from the heat with a cool glass of water? The seas bubble with the collateral damage of the vainglorious who rush to play in the water while the Dine thirst in an empty basin. The red man&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135664","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\/4411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135680,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135664\/revisions\/135680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}