{"id":141425,"date":"2023-09-03T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=141425"},"modified":"2023-09-03T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T10:00:06","slug":"free-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/free-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the greatest works of art were written or painted or sculpted by someone who was depressed or haunted by unhappiness in one way or another. When you have someone on your back spreading word to not comment on this or not commenting on that it shows. What is the interest of people making choices for someone behind their back. I\u2019ve read poems that were words of someone who is not very happily or at some point was not very happy.<\/p>\n<p>Controlling someone\u2019s destiny in such a way that you ruin a person\u2019s livelihood is not power it\u2019s insanity on the part of the controller. I say let folks live. Let them write. Let them draw. Let them paint. Let them sculpt. Let them perform their artistic-ness ( if there\u2019s such a word) in their way. If it\u2019s ugly, or hideous that\u2019s okay. Freedom of expression is real.<\/p>\n<p>God gave me free will to express myself in writing. He gave us all free will but he expected that we\u2019d do the right things. Yes, I believe the Lord already knows what\u2019s going to transpire but I believe He can be surprised as well. Leave people alone if you are not trying to help that person or those people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the greatest works of art were written or painted or sculpted by someone who was depressed or haunted by unhappiness in one way or another. When you have someone on your back spreading word to not comment on this or not commenting on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[706],"class_list":["post-141425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141425","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\/5223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141618,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141425\/revisions\/141618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}