{"id":136741,"date":"2023-09-02T20:21:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136741"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:21:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:21:41","slug":"the-11th-hour-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-11th-hour-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The 11th Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>The 11<sup>th<\/sup> hour<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 11<sup>th<\/sup> hour is coming near.<\/p>\n<p>Where will you be?<\/p>\n<p>As the Earth begins to crumble<\/p>\n<p>from the mass of unmarked graves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The children who were once alive<\/p>\n<p>now wander the land<\/p>\n<p>crying for their parents<\/p>\n<p>who are no longer here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 11<sup>th<\/sup> hour is stalking<\/p>\n<p>our thoughts,<\/p>\n<p>bringing up past guilty<\/p>\n<p>acts of culture appropriation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mimicking the people<\/p>\n<p>who once aided their ancestors<\/p>\n<p>in their time of need.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Only to be downgraded<\/p>\n<p>and have families torn apart<\/p>\n<p>by \u201cChristian acts of love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 11<sup>th<\/sup> hour draws nearer.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me, where will you be<\/p>\n<p>when judgment is upon you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 11th hour &nbsp; The 11th hour is coming near. Where will you be? As the Earth begins to crumble from the mass of unmarked graves. &nbsp; The children who were once alive now wander the land crying for their parents who are no longer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136741","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\/3277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136750,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136741\/revisions\/136750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}