{"id":136335,"date":"2023-09-02T19:52:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136335"},"modified":"2023-09-02T19:52:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:52:38","slug":"illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/illusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These illusions<br \/>\nWhich we\u2019ve centered our lives<br \/>\nAren\u2019t as concrete as we imagine.<\/p>\n<p>They aren\u2019t as fixed<br \/>\nAs we\u2019ve been taught<br \/>\nThey\u2019re as fixed<br \/>\nAs a house made<br \/>\nOff exploited labor<br \/>\nCutting corners<br \/>\nOn stolen land<\/p>\n<p>Easily destroyed by the earth\u2019s<br \/>\nMighty winds and flames<br \/>\nThey aren\u2019t as absolute as ones and zeros<br \/>\nYes and no<br \/>\nAs it is<br \/>\nAnd as it can\u2019t be<\/p>\n<p>That isn\u2019t to say that nothing matters<br \/>\nBut that you get to decide what is important<br \/>\nThat we are free to chose our paths<br \/>\nFree to question and explore<br \/>\nFree to create something<br \/>\nComplete<br \/>\nIn the chaos of the illusion <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These illusions Which we\u2019ve centered our lives Aren\u2019t as concrete as we imagine. They aren\u2019t as fixed As we\u2019ve been taught They\u2019re as fixed As a house made Off exploited labor Cutting corners On stolen land Easily destroyed by the earth\u2019s Mighty winds and flames&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6119],"class_list":["post-136335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2023hour11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136335","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\/1373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136346,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136335\/revisions\/136346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}