{"id":33120,"date":"2017-08-05T11:54:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=33120"},"modified":"2017-08-05T11:54:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:54:02","slug":"endless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/endless\/","title":{"rendered":"Endless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not ready to live forever,<br \/>\nBut the neon sign, glowing cyan, beckons me,<br \/>\nI step up to the door,<br \/>\nJOIN<br \/>\nPARTICIPATE<br \/>\nSHARE<br \/>\nTEACH<br \/>\nCELEBRATE<br \/>\nSORT<br \/>\nSort?  Sort out the good from the bad,<br \/>\nThe believers from the non-believers,<br \/>\nor maybe it&#8217;s<br \/>\nPORT<br \/>\nWhere I will be transported to forever,<br \/>\nThe shadow of a palm tree, black against the brick,<br \/>\nAncient markings above the doorways,<br \/>\nOne lamp aglow, one dead,<br \/>\nIf both lamps were dead I wouldn&#8217;t even see that shadow,<br \/>\nAm I the palm tree?  No.<br \/>\nI turn my head to the right to see behind me its pineapple trunk in the dim light,<br \/>\nAnd then I wonder what I would be in eternity,<br \/>\nWould I remain this meek, pathetic creature?<br \/>\nI&#8217;m better off as a palm tree,<br \/>\nSwaying in the breeze under the apocalyptic sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not ready to live forever, But the neon sign, glowing cyan, beckons me, I step up to the door, JOIN PARTICIPATE SHARE TEACH CELEBRATE SORT Sort? Sort out the good from the bad, The believers from the non-believers, or maybe it&#8217;s PORT Where I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":997,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33120","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\/997"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33273,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33120\/revisions\/33273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}