{"id":2727,"date":"2014-08-23T22:34:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T02:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2014-08-23T22:34:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T02:34:01","slug":"lessons-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/lessons-in-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons in Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lessons remain unlearnt<\/p>\n<p>Woe is me comes gushing forward in<\/p>\n<p>Every direction<\/p>\n<p>Anger and pain fill the air<\/p>\n<p>Closely followed by a moan of self-pitying<\/p>\n<p>A cry for help!<\/p>\n<p>A pointless exercise in futility<\/p>\n<p>A road lays before you<\/p>\n<p>what are you choosing for yourself?<\/p>\n<p>A variation on a theme<\/p>\n<p>More pain, more anger, more broken dreams?<\/p>\n<p>I wish for a miracle that the Divine Spirit<\/p>\n<p>Lays their hand on you head<\/p>\n<p>Either slapping you into our reality<\/p>\n<p>Or shines the light and<\/p>\n<p>You will finally see your way forward<\/p>\n<p>But alas No you are from ready<\/p>\n<p>So many lessons to learn<\/p>\n<p>A blind man in the desert wandering around<\/p>\n<p>Aimlessly to his ultimate death<\/p>\n<p>A very sad state of affairs<\/p>\n<p>Indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lessons remain unlearnt Woe is me comes gushing forward in Every direction Anger and pain fill the air Closely followed by a moan of self-pitying A cry for help! A pointless exercise in futility A road lays before you what are you choosing for yourself?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","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\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2735,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions\/2735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}