{"id":139037,"date":"2023-09-03T02:25:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=139037"},"modified":"2023-09-03T00:14:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T04:14:30","slug":"lost-in-oblivion-hour-eighteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/lost-in-oblivion-hour-eighteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in Oblivion &#8211; Hour Eighteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lost in Oblivion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This digital age has become an undoing<br \/>\nOf communication and of common sense<br \/>\nWhole words whittled down to mete fragments of lingo<br \/>\nAnd at youthful minds own expense<br \/>\nThe kids of today have lost their direction<br \/>\nEyes deeply buried into their phones<br \/>\nTo where many don&#8217;t know how to make conversation<br \/>\nStaying trapped in their tech all alone<\/p>\n<p>I have heard of some that have walked into traffic<br \/>\nWithout even batting an eye<br \/>\nNot aware of surroundings or risking tomorrow<br \/>\nWith no clear answer as to why<br \/>\nThe phone use may be a clear sign of addiction<br \/>\nA pandemic within its own right<br \/>\nFor safety concerns are evermore apparent<br \/>\nIn each downloaded gigabyte<\/p>\n<p>There once was a time when a stream was where fish swam<br \/>\nAnd viruses were only the flu<br \/>\nWhere smishing sounded but akin to a gurgle<br \/>\nAnd humanity still had a clue<br \/>\nTechnology has brought us many an advantage<br \/>\nBut each forward step is one back<br \/>\nAnd sadly, the youth of today are the victims<br \/>\nOf common sense&#8217;s great cyber attack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost in Oblivion This digital age has become an undoing Of communication and of common sense Whole words whittled down to mete fragments of lingo And at youthful minds own expense The kids of today have lost their direction Eyes deeply buried into their phones&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441,5],"tags":[5772,680,3019,2158,1806,3456],"class_list":["post-139037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-full-marathon","tag-jill-eisnaugle","tag-jill-halasz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139037","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=139037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139123,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139037\/revisions\/139123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}