{"id":37772,"date":"2017-08-05T23:35:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37772"},"modified":"2017-10-03T14:09:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T18:09:28","slug":"days-gone-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/days-gone-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Days Gone By"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For whatever reason, the planet keeps turning.<\/p>\n<p>Sun up, sun down. It makes no difference.<\/p>\n<p>We remain slaves to our own fate. As if that<\/p>\n<p>Weren&#8217;t poignant enough, there&#8217;s really not<\/p>\n<p>Much we can do about it short of throwing our existence<\/p>\n<p>Into chaos or bringing it to an abrupt halt. But life has no<\/p>\n<p>Patience for frivolous requests. This is our time, for better or worse.<\/p>\n<p>Squandering it would be a sign of weakness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For whatever reason, the planet keeps turning. Sun up, sun down. It makes no difference. We remain slaves to our own fate. As if that Weren&#8217;t poignant enough, there&#8217;s really not Much we can do about it short of throwing our existence Into chaos or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":796,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37772","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\/796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37772"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44702,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37772\/revisions\/44702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}