{"id":28094,"date":"2016-08-14T07:01:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T11:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=28094"},"modified":"2016-08-14T07:01:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T11:01:57","slug":"perhaps-a-better-future-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/perhaps-a-better-future-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps a better future #18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dressed in a king&#8217;s attire,<\/p>\n<p>under the mask of lies,<\/p>\n<p>convincing as a con man,<\/p>\n<p>the country slowly dies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blood as coffee stains,<\/p>\n<p>wounds are gaping holes,<\/p>\n<p>the Royal eyes are closed,<\/p>\n<p>as life, the Angels stole.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Adrenalin, a marathon runner,<\/p>\n<p>pumping through their veins,<\/p>\n<p>as they drop their arms in surrender,<\/p>\n<p>crimson in showers of rain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Running for their life,<\/p>\n<p>fleeing their own land,<\/p>\n<p>perhaps a better future,<\/p>\n<p>their oaths a strong band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dressed in a king&#8217;s attire, under the mask of lies, convincing as a con man, the country slowly dies. &nbsp; Blood as coffee stains, wounds are gaping holes, the Royal eyes are closed, as life, the Angels stole. &nbsp; Adrenalin, a marathon runner, pumping through&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":770,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28094","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\/770"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28145,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28094\/revisions\/28145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}