{"id":27062,"date":"2016-08-14T03:38:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T07:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=27062"},"modified":"2016-08-14T03:39:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T07:39:53","slug":"poemno19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/poemno19\/","title":{"rendered":"#PoemNo19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">#PoemNo19<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Everyone you meet and greet,<br \/>\nor even chat with will pose with this<br \/>\nformal greeting \u2018\u2019How are you?\u2019\u2019<br \/>\nAs it is regarded as an unspoken<br \/>\nbut practiced social norm which<br \/>\nreflects common decency<br \/>\nand polite courtesy.<br \/>\nTo that I will revert back with a question<br \/>\n\u2018\u2019Do you really want to know how am I doing?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">But trust me when I say this,<br \/>\nnone of them are really interested in<br \/>\nknowing what the fuck is up with you.<br \/>\nBecause and when I say this<br \/>\nI speak from experience<br \/>\nEveryone is involved with their own self,<br \/>\ntoo busy to care about what you have to say.<br \/>\nWhy suck up to social conformity then?<br \/>\nI will revolt in writing, pour out my frustration<br \/>\nbut when it comes to doing it<br \/>\nI shy away from it.<br \/>\nNot because I\u2019m scared<br \/>\nbut because it has been so deeply<br \/>\nengraved\u00a0in my very upbringing.<br \/>\nSociety has imbibed this ritual of responding<br \/>\nwith phrases like \u2018\u2019I\u2019m good!\u2019\u2019 ,\u2018\u2019I\u2019m great!\u2019\u2019<br \/>\nWhich do not at all sound genuine and heart-felt.<br \/>\nWe lie to ourselves when we answer like this.<br \/>\nWe barely skim through life<br \/>\nWe don\u2019t get to talk our heart out<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Let\u2019s begin a revolution of answering every \u2018\u2019How are you?\u2019\u2019<br \/>\nthrown at you<br \/>\nwith nothing but honesty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">j.r.m<em>\u00a9<\/em>\u00a02016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#PoemNo19 Everyone you meet and greet, or even chat with will pose with this formal greeting \u2018\u2019How are you?\u2019\u2019 As it is regarded as an unspoken but practiced social norm which reflects common decency and polite courtesy. To that I will revert back with a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27062","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\/897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27173,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27062\/revisions\/27173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}