{"id":2574,"date":"2014-08-23T16:54:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T20:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2014-08-23T16:54:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T20:54:03","slug":"poetry-marathon-poem-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/poetry-marathon-poem-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Marathon poem #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sift through<br \/>\nthe passing times<br \/>\nfinding broken glass<br \/>\nin piles among the sand<br \/>\nmusing character<br \/>\nand what can be done<br \/>\nwith two hands<br \/>\nand hard work<br \/>\nbuild something<br \/>\nput it to use<br \/>\nmake the new<br \/>\nfrom years of abuse<br \/>\nphysical mental<br \/>\nemotional warfare<br \/>\nyearning for a chance<br \/>\nto prove I care<br \/>\nflying, failing, flailing through<br \/>\ndoing whatever it is I must do<br \/>\nThe drawings scattered<br \/>\nin old notebooks<br \/>\nforetell the future<br \/>\nof bubbling brooks<br \/>\nand trees not paper<br \/>\nnature&#8217;s progress<br \/>\nhumanity advances<br \/>\nto regress<br \/>\nold problems never solved<br \/>\njust put to the back of the mind<br \/>\nhoping the answer will come with time<br \/>\nbut not the attitude<br \/>\nhowever<br \/>\ndystopian calls<br \/>\n are always crude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sift through the passing times finding broken glass in piles among the sand musing character and what can be done with two hands and hard work build something put it to use make the new from years of abuse physical mental emotional warfare yearning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2577,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}