{"id":137462,"date":"2023-09-02T21:26:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=137462"},"modified":"2023-09-02T21:26:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:26:09","slug":"black-and-white-with-a-touch-of-gray-hour-thirteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/black-and-white-with-a-touch-of-gray-hour-thirteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Black and White with a Touch of Gray &#8211; Hour Thirteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Black and White with a Touch of Gray<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Crystal clear and black and white<br \/>\nThings seem so cut and dry<br \/>\nAnd yet, sometimes that is not quite<br \/>\nThe case before one&#8217;s eyes<br \/>\nMore times than not, a touch of gray<br \/>\nIs accurate to view<br \/>\nAs lines are blurred and rules un-clear<br \/>\nFor fairness to ensue<\/p>\n<p>That touch of gray, a mid-point space<br \/>\nOn which most can agree<br \/>\nIs safer for keeping the pace<br \/>\nOf peace and harmony<br \/>\nBlack and white thought can leave some lost<br \/>\nWith no place to fit in<br \/>\nSuch thinking is not worth the cost<br \/>\nShould hurt feelings begin<\/p>\n<p>And yet, within the touch of gray<br \/>\nEveryone can feel embraced<br \/>\nA spot no one should feel that they<br \/>\nShould ever be disgraced<br \/>\nCasting aside the issues found<br \/>\nIn black and white ideals<br \/>\nTo blur those lines for peace abound<br \/>\nWhere all involved can heal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black and White with a Touch of Gray Crystal clear and black and white Things seem so cut and dry And yet, sometimes that is not quite The case before one&#8217;s eyes More times than not, a touch of gray Is accurate to view As&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441],"tags":[5772,5765,6166,1806,3456,392],"class_list":["post-137462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-2023poetrymarathon","tag-black-and-white-poems","tag-jill-eisnaugle","tag-jill-halasz","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137462","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137551,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137462\/revisions\/137551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}