{"id":20785,"date":"2016-08-13T14:06:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=20785"},"modified":"2016-08-13T14:06:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:06:16","slug":"deserving-prosperity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/deserving-prosperity\/","title":{"rendered":"Deserving Prosperity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Money is not the root . . .<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>of anything.<\/strong><br \/>\nExcept, it is the KEY&#8230;<br \/>\nto how we live and trade.<br \/>\nMoney is just made&#8230;<br \/>\nIn various ways.<br \/>\nNothing fancy in the beginning&#8230;<br \/>\nInk and paper;<br \/>\nthrough a machine it goes.<br \/>\nIt becomes our CASH.<br \/>\nThen, it is distributed &#8230;<br \/>\nto the good and evil.<br \/>\nAnd sometimes NOT!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20874\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/high-school-1005-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"high-school-1005\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/high-school-1005-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/high-school-1005-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><strong>Money can be the root&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>of all that is good!<\/strong><br \/>\nIt can build schools&#8230;<br \/>\nChurches&#8230;<br \/>\nHomes&#8230;<br \/>\nIt can be used to feed the hungry&#8230;<br \/>\nif food needs to be bought.<br \/>\nOf course, donating can be direct;<br \/>\nNot of money and money alone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Still, money comes into play&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Let&#8217;s do with it what we will.<\/strong><br \/>\nTo see as bad&#8230;<br \/>\nTo see it as glad&#8230;<br \/>\nOften makes it so;<br \/>\nBased on what you believe.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s be glad and happy . . .<br \/>\nThen, we can achieve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Money is not the root . . . of anything. Except, it is the KEY&#8230; to how we live and trade. Money is just made&#8230; In various ways. Nothing fancy in the beginning&#8230; Ink and paper; through a machine it goes. It becomes our CASH&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":745,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[1514,1515],"class_list":["post-20785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-musings","tag-money","tag-prosperity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20785","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\/745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20892,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20785\/revisions\/20892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}