{"id":26200,"date":"2016-08-14T01:05:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T05:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=26200"},"modified":"2021-06-27T08:32:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:32:17","slug":"i-read-the-newspaper-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/i-read-the-newspaper-today\/","title":{"rendered":"I Read the Newspaper Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read the newspaper today<br \/>\nThe stories were filled with grief and despair<br \/>\nEach one made my heart hurt worse<br \/>\nSaddened for the world today<br \/>\nSo much death and destruction<br \/>\nToo much heartache and loss<br \/>\nI knew I needed to do something<br \/>\nSomething to change the cycle<br \/>\nI walked to the convenience store<br \/>\nI saw a handicapped lady there<br \/>\nSo I bought her a beverage<br \/>\nA relief on a hot day<br \/>\nThen, I played with the neighbor\u2019s deaf grandson<br \/>\nAs she told me about how people made fun of him<br \/>\nI packed my love\u2019s lunch for work<br \/>\nThen made sure he had everything he needed<br \/>\nSuddenly I realized, it\u2019s the little steps we take<br \/>\nThat add up in numbers over time<br \/>\nYou don\u2019t have to be Bill Gates to make a difference<br \/>\nJust someone with compassion for others<br \/>\nAnd this realization only hit me<br \/>\nBecause I chose to help others<br \/>\nAfter I read the newspaper today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read the newspaper today The stories were filled with grief and despair Each one made my heart hurt worse Saddened for the world today So much death and destruction Too much heartache and loss I knew I needed to do something Something to change&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441,5],"tags":[680,1806,1946,1157,392],"class_list":["post-26200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-jill-eisnaugle","tag-poems-about-the-newspaper","tag-poetrymarathon2016","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26200","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26225,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26200\/revisions\/26225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}