{"id":19652,"date":"2016-08-13T12:17:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19652"},"modified":"2016-08-13T12:17:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:17:17","slug":"hour-four-the-dream-is-always-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hour-four-the-dream-is-always-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Four: The dream is always the same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For hour four, I applied the prompt to a poem I had already started a few minutes before. First, the finished poem:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The dream is always the same<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who told bigger lies?<br \/>\nI know, it wasn\u2019t a contest<br \/>\nbut I\u2019m always looking for that edge<br \/>\nYou may have been better at it<br \/>\nbut I made up the difference with sheer quantity<br \/>\nOur self-delusions reached deep into the core<br \/>\nplanting the seeds that churned up the earth<br \/>\nas they grew into the monster that devoured us<br \/>\nand left us for dead<br \/>\nWe pretended to be the walking wounded<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\"><br \/>\n<\/span>but the truth had other ideas<br \/>\nWe buried the corpses and moved on<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Here is the poem with all twenty lines, with strikethrough applied to the lines I removed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Who told bigger lies?<br \/>\nI know, it wasn\u2019t a contest<br \/>\nbut I\u2019m always looking for that edge<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">I think it was a toss-up<br \/>\nYou lied to yourself<br \/>\nI lied to myself<br \/>\n<\/span>You may have been better at it<br \/>\nbut I made up the difference with sheer quantity<br \/>\nOur self-delusions reached deep into the core<br \/>\nplanting the seeds that churned up the earth<br \/>\nas they grew into the monster that devoured us<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">eating far too quickly, ignoring its mother\u2019s warnings<br \/>\nthrew us up<br \/>\njust like mother said it would<br \/>\n(always listen to your mother)<br \/>\n<\/span>and left us for dead<br \/>\nWe pretended to be the walking wounded<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">hoping someone would take pity on us<br \/>\n<\/span>but the truth had other ideas<br \/>\nWe buried the corpses and moved on<\/p>\n<p>(13 August 2016)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For hour four, I applied the prompt to a poem I had already started a few minutes before. First, the finished poem: The dream is always the same Who told bigger lies? I know, it wasn\u2019t a contest but I\u2019m always looking for that edge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":793,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1169,1410,1173,1407,1163,1408,15,10,1409],"class_list":["post-19652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-august-2016","tag-destructive-beliefs","tag-half-marathon","tag-hour-four","tag-kevin-j-oconner","tag-lies","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-self-delusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19652","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\/793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19725,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19652\/revisions\/19725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}