{"id":18295,"date":"2016-08-13T10:56:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18295"},"modified":"2016-08-13T23:50:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T03:50:16","slug":"listen-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/listen-3\/","title":{"rendered":"HOUR 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

LISTEN<\/p>\n

You asked Me<\/p>\n

to listen;<\/p>\n

I did.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Those\u00a0words<\/p>\n

had no meaning<\/p>\n

no, not for me.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Distracted by his\u00a0rifle<\/p>\n

and blurry tattoos<\/p>\n

I should have listened<\/p>\n

to your prompt<\/p>\n

and not viewed.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I’ll try again<\/p>\n

a second time<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Without distraction<\/p>\n

I was able to hear<\/p>\n

about hope and love<\/p>\n

things I hold dear<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Your prompt<\/p>\n

goes to show<\/p>\n

never judge<\/p>\n

the unknown.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hear through the rhetoric<\/p>\n

and beautiful tone<\/p>\n

a message brought clear<\/p>\n

a message sent home<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hey there,<\/p>\n

yes you.<\/p>\n

We are not alone.<\/p>\n

We’re not quite through.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

So open your mind<\/p>\n

and look beyond you.<\/p>\n

Peace can be real<\/p>\n

for more than a few.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LISTEN You asked Me to listen; I did.   Those\u00a0words had no meaning no, not for me.   Distracted by his\u00a0rifle and blurry tattoos I should have listened to your prompt and not viewed.   I’ll try again a second time   Without distraction I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":875,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18295","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\/875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18295"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26028,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18295\/revisions\/26028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}