{"id":141828,"date":"2023-09-03T05:43:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=141828"},"modified":"2023-09-03T05:43:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:43:43","slug":"the-rules-of-running-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-rules-of-running-21\/","title":{"rendered":"The rules of running #21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Running away from<br \/>\nIs more important than<br \/>\nWhere you&#8217;re running to<br \/>\nThe danger may be behind<br \/>\nBut you can&#8217;t run faster<br \/>\nWhile looking back<br \/>\nJust recall every slasher victim<br \/>\nWho fell while they did<br \/>\nA man can beat a horse<br \/>\nFrom a standing start<br \/>\nOver short distances<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t have to be faster<br \/>\nThan a lion<br \/>\nJust faster than you<br \/>\nIf you run far enough<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll end up where you started<br \/>\nAnd probably die tired<br \/>\nThe race isn&#8217;t always to the swift<br \/>\nBut that&#8217;s the way to bet<br \/>\nAnd even a determined tortoise<br \/>\nCan beat a lazy hare<br \/>\nIf he just keeps running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running away from Is more important than Where you&#8217;re running to The danger may be behind But you can&#8217;t run faster While looking back Just recall every slasher victim Who fell while they did A man can beat a horse From a standing start Over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141828","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\/4830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141832,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141828\/revisions\/141832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}