{"id":4021,"date":"2014-08-24T08:11:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T12:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=4021"},"modified":"2014-08-24T08:11:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T12:11:44","slug":"yolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/yolo\/","title":{"rendered":"YOLO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You Only Live Once<br \/>\nFor young people it&#8217;s a cry of rebellion<br \/>\nRisk Taking<br \/>\nCourage<br \/>\nPushing them out of their comfort zones and<br \/>\nSeducing others<br \/>\nTo take a chance<\/p>\n<p>Love!<br \/>\nGo for it!<br \/>\nJump!<\/p>\n<p>My son screams &#8220;YOLO!&#8221; as he makes a reckless move in a video game.<br \/>\nA youth on the news shouts &#8220;YOLO!&#8221; to the camera as he&#8217;s led away from an accident in handcuffs.<br \/>\nAnother toasts &#8220;Yolo!&#8221; as he does another shot, on his way to alcohol poisoning.<\/p>\n<p>I shake my head.<br \/>\nHas Carpe Diem come to mean recklessness?<br \/>\nOr am I just getting old?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Poem #23 &#8211; Make up poem&#8230;.catching up)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Only Live Once For young people it&#8217;s a cry of rebellion Risk Taking Courage Pushing them out of their comfort zones and Seducing others To take a chance Love! Go for it! Jump! My son screams &#8220;YOLO!&#8221; as he makes a reckless move in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021","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\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4501,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions\/4501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}