{"id":1431,"date":"2014-08-23T10:20:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T14:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2014-08-23T10:20:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T14:20:54","slug":"second-post-a-voting-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/second-post-a-voting-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Post: A Voting Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Voting Poem<\/p>\n<p>1: History<\/p>\n<p>They fought long and hard<br \/>\nFought to be seen and heard,<br \/>\n100 years ago<br \/>\nEquality a dream,<br \/>\nThey strove to make real.<\/p>\n<p>2: Vote the First<\/p>\n<p>Now I am part of history,<br \/>\nNow I can make a difference<br \/>\nI place my mark alongside those that came before &#8211;<br \/>\nFeeling their weight,<br \/>\nAnd their courage.<\/p>\n<p>3: Why?<\/p>\n<p>He asks why, questions the difference it makes.<br \/>\nHe is one of the elite \u2013 straight and white and male,<br \/>\nBut he too has his battles; I tell him<br \/>\nIf no-one makes their mark, just one cross,<br \/>\nWe can blame no others but ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>4: Just History Repeating Itself<\/p>\n<p>The social media \u2013 the one only that matters now<br \/>\nPosts photos, 50, 70, 100 years apart,<br \/>\nPoints to similar poses, dress, expressions,<br \/>\nMisses the full picture \u2013<br \/>\nHistory repeats, the fight continues, because we do not learn.<\/p>\n<p>5: Not Our Fight?<\/p>\n<p>I have but one fight of my own,<br \/>\nDo not always need to stand up and be counted<br \/>\nBut I am part of the human race,<br \/>\nAnd equality should be for all.<br \/>\nIf we do not stand together, we fall apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Voting Poem 1: History They fought long and hard Fought to be seen and heard, 100 years ago Equality a dream, They strove to make real. 2: Vote the First Now I am part of history, Now I can make a difference I place&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","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\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1436,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}