{"id":22670,"date":"2016-08-13T17:49:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22670"},"modified":"2016-08-13T17:50:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:50:54","slug":"windows-or-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/windows-or-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows or Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking downward, looking outward, yet still looking in<br \/>\nThrough lenses of perception we see this juxtaposition:<\/p>\n<p>The walls we build to guard ourselves from outside trap us in<br \/>\nBut to see the bigger picture leaves us naked and exposed<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Do we sacrifice greater understanding for security?<br \/>\nOr do we risk our well-being for the ability to clearly see?<\/p>\n<p>The choice a paradox it seems, a dream that&#8217;s not quite lucid<br \/>\nA choice between one or the other seems quite useless,<br \/>\nRather fruitless, as you need the dark to understand the light<br \/>\nThe world exists in shades of grey, it&#8217;s never black or white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking downward, looking outward, yet still looking in Through lenses of perception we see this juxtaposition: The walls we build to guard ourselves from outside trap us in But to see the bigger picture leaves us naked and exposed So&#8230; Do we sacrifice greater understanding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":781,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22670","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\/781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23188,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22670\/revisions\/23188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}