{"id":35714,"date":"2017-08-05T16:29:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=35714"},"modified":"2017-08-05T16:30:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:30:29","slug":"golden-shovel-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/golden-shovel-8\/","title":{"rendered":"golden shovel – #8"},"content":{"rendered":"

I call upon all of us, the people, WE
\nto take to heart our shared need to seek
\nfor ourselves, each and every one – not
\npoint to ‘others’ or ‘them’ or \u00a0‘the rest’ –
\nbut
\ntake upon ourselves\u00a0<\/b>a goal of transformation.<\/p>\n

This can only happen if we
\nare willing to be accountable, honest; are
\nable to listen deeply and stop dancing
\naround the elephant in the room through
\nblame, hyperbole, making of each
\nthe ‘other’
\nas if that could possibly solve anything, as
\nif there weren’t already between us enough closed doorways.<\/p>\n

We seek not rest but transformation.\/We are dancing through each other as doorways<\/em>.from \u00a0‘Circling’\u00a0 by Marge Piercy<\/p>\n

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I call upon all of us, the people, WE to take to heart our shared need to seek for ourselves, each and every one – not point to ‘others’ or ‘them’ or \u00a0‘the rest’ – but take upon ourselves\u00a0a goal of transformation. This can only…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35714","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\/1122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36068,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35714\/revisions\/36068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}