{"id":143510,"date":"2023-09-03T08:20:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=143510"},"modified":"2023-09-03T08:20:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:20:16","slug":"prompt-twenty-four-because-they-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/prompt-twenty-four-because-they-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt Twenty-Four &#8211; Because they Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prompt Twenty-four \u2013 Text Prompt<\/strong> \u2013 Write a poem about hope.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Because they Hope<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hope is the best there is.<\/p>\n<p>Was she not the last one out of Pandora\u2019s box?<\/p>\n<p>There is always hope, even against hope.<\/p>\n<p>Till the end, till the very last breath.<\/p>\n<p>Goals have been scored a second before the referee\u2019s whistle.<\/p>\n<p>Because they hoped.<\/p>\n<p>Children rescued from earthquake rubble after weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Because they hoped.<\/p>\n<p>Folk rising from coma after showing Grim Reaper the door.<\/p>\n<p>Because there was hope.<\/p>\n<p>Fishermen returning to land after a stormy night at sea.<\/p>\n<p>Because they hoped.<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers walking away unscathed from the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>Because there was hope.<\/p>\n<p>And when you join your palms as you hope<\/p>\n<p>There will always be Hope.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt Twenty-four \u2013 Text Prompt \u2013 Write a poem about hope. &nbsp; Because they Hope &nbsp; Hope is the best there is. Was she not the last one out of Pandora\u2019s box? There is always hope, even against hope. Till the end, till the very&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[5772,5765,680,3019,355,392],"class_list":["post-143510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-2023poetrymarathon","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-poetry-marathon","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143510","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\/1430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143562,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143510\/revisions\/143562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}