{"id":20735,"date":"2016-08-13T13:53:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=20735"},"modified":"2016-08-13T13:53:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:53:18","slug":"11am-it-matters-how-we-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/11am-it-matters-how-we-escape\/","title":{"rendered":"11am &#8211; It Matters How We Escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As human beings<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s too easy<br \/>\nTo get trapped in our own heads.<br \/>\nSome escape through ceaseless chatter<br \/>\nFinding doors to the outside through<br \/>\nThe voices of their neighbours<br \/>\nBut I<br \/>\nOpen another door entirely<br \/>\nTrue life disguised as fantasy<br \/>\nPages of written words<br \/>\nWhich open doors to others&#8217; hearts<br \/>\nAnd let me out into a world<br \/>\nMuch larger than my mind.<br \/>\nLet us escape together<br \/>\nThe madness of loneliness<br \/>\nAnd meet each other in the middle<br \/>\nNot written words,<br \/>\nBut spoken stories,<br \/>\nNot that vapid daily chatter<br \/>\nBut true connection.<br \/>\nThe world is so much larger<br \/>\nThan each of our individual, or even our collective,<br \/>\nMinds,<br \/>\nLet us look on it together<br \/>\nWith eyes sharpened<br \/>\nBy the minds and hearts of others, of each other.<br \/>\nPrecious human beings<br \/>\nTogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As human beings It&#8217;s too easy To get trapped in our own heads. Some escape through ceaseless chatter Finding doors to the outside through The voices of their neighbours But I Open another door entirely True life disguised as fantasy Pages of written words Which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":864,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20735","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\/864"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20747,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20735\/revisions\/20747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}