{"id":17870,"date":"2016-08-13T09:34:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=17870"},"modified":"2021-06-27T08:32:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:32:56","slug":"hope-in-a-dark-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hope-in-a-dark-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope in a Dark World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a world in shambles<br \/>\nLost and broken; in despair<br \/>\nWithout some form of anchor<br \/>\nTo hold its peacetime wear<br \/>\nBut deep within that sadness<br \/>\nA faint beacon still remained<br \/>\nWithin the little children<br \/>\nTo whom hate\u00a0must be explained<br \/>\nFor they know not of races<br \/>\nOf gender or of creed<br \/>\nThey see the world as equal<br \/>\nWhen they ask &#8220;Please play with me&#8221;<br \/>\nWhat if we all were children<br \/>\nBack in grade school once again<br \/>\nMaybe we&#8217;d take life lessons<br \/>\nAnd rid life of pain and sin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a world in shambles Lost and broken; in despair Without some form of anchor To hold its peacetime wear But deep within that sadness A faint beacon still remained Within the little children To whom hate\u00a0must be explained For they know not of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[1231,1233,50,1232],"class_list":["post-17870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","tag-children","tag-coming-of-age-poetry","tag-peace","tag-peace-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17870","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17918,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17870\/revisions\/17918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}