{"id":23231,"date":"2016-08-13T17:55:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23231"},"modified":"2016-09-12T21:58:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T01:58:12","slug":"hour-7-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hour-7-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 7 Angst&#8230; Teen Angst is much more than a Clique&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u>Angst<\/u><\/p>\n<p>German or Dutch it doesn\u2019t trouble me that much.<\/p>\n<p>This is word-etymology that we trust.<\/p>\n<p>Teenage angst is still most popular today, and that\u2019s not ok!<\/p>\n<p>The youth are a precious group; they are all our saved up dreams rolled into one.<\/p>\n<p>My school or your school it is the millage that rules. Equality seems so far away, like a distant land, and this I can\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t need pen pals to teach that &#8220;tolerance&#8221; is too weak a deed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Diversity&#8221; too, is losing its luster and its promise.<\/p>\n<p>We desire something far greater than the &#8220;Dawning of Aquarius&#8221; to wake us from this sleeping beauty that we think we need.<\/p>\n<p>Plant the seed, quench the thirst, however clich\u00e9 the idea may seem, cultivate the mind with a love of knowledge based on curiosity, exploration, and not \u00a0just the mere hope of college.<\/p>\n<p>Where is our dedication to the youth?\u00a0 They are our future, just as much as we are their past. We both make up the whole and we cannot put\u00a0them last.<\/p>\n<p>Angst is an opportunity to uncover our fears and face reality. We must invigorate the youth. They deserve truth, not banality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angst German or Dutch it doesn\u2019t trouble me that much. This is word-etymology that we trust. Teenage angst is still most popular today, and that\u2019s not ok! The youth are a precious group; they are all our saved up dreams rolled into one. My school&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":785,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23231","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\/785"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23231"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30080,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23231\/revisions\/30080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}