{"id":23162,"date":"2016-08-13T17:50:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23162"},"modified":"2016-08-13T17:50:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:50:38","slug":"hour-nine-recognizing-the-mountebank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hour-nine-recognizing-the-mountebank\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Nine: Recognizing the Mountebank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.&#8221; -George Sand<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to be generous<br \/>\nwhen you have enough.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s easy to love<br \/>\nwhen you were raised with unconditional love.<\/p>\n<p>The real kindness comes from the widow<br \/>\nwho gives her last mite.<br \/>\nBut what of the mountebank, that con man<br \/>\nselling snake oil so many are buying?<\/p>\n<p>How can he be so greedy<br \/>\nwhen he always had everything\u2014<br \/>\nprivate schools, private jets,<br \/>\ngold plated urinals?<\/p>\n<p>What makes the person who was given the world<br \/>\nso unkind?  What makes him so afraid?<br \/>\nWhat makes him need to steal<br \/>\nthe widow\u2019s mite?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe he was given gold instead of kindness.<br \/>\nMaybe loss was a punishable offense.<br \/>\nWe can\u2019t judge.  Something made him.  But for the sake of the Constitution,<br \/>\nwe don\u2019t have to vote for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.&#8221; -George Sand It\u2019s easy to be generous when you have enough. It\u2019s easy to love when you were raised with unconditional love&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162","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\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23185,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162\/revisions\/23185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}