{"id":141889,"date":"2023-09-03T05:59:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=141889"},"modified":"2023-09-03T05:59:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:59:52","slug":"beneath-the-surface-hour-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/beneath-the-surface-hour-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Beneath the surface (Hour 21)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has it ever crossed your mind,<br \/>\nhow we are defined,<br \/>\nwhat makes us who we are,<br \/>\nwhat tells us who we are,<br \/>\nor dictates us who we are,<br \/>\nin this hustle called life,<br \/>\nhow do we survive,<br \/>\ndo we keep up with the grind,<br \/>\nor we dare to just swim,<br \/>\naway from this world,<br \/>\nwhere we are not free,<br \/>\nto another one,<br \/>\nwhere everyone agrees,<br \/>\nwe are made up of stardust,<br \/>\nthere is magic in me,<br \/>\neach one is unique.<\/p>\n<p>Our minds our different,<br \/>\nwe are separate beings,<br \/>\nstill something binds us,<br \/>\nits not our flesh,<br \/>\nnor the skin on it,<br \/>\nnot the language we speak,<br \/>\nits the home we share,<br \/>\nnot the boundaries we made,<br \/>\nhave you ever revealed,<br \/>\ndiscovered beneath,<br \/>\nthe surface of earth,<br \/>\nthe surface of heart,<br \/>\na voice trying to reach,<br \/>\ntells who you truly are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has it ever crossed your mind, how we are defined, what makes us who we are, what tells us who we are, or dictates us who we are, in this hustle called life, how do we survive, do we keep up with the grind, or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141889","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141974,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141889\/revisions\/141974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}