{"id":40272,"date":"2017-08-06T00:46:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T04:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=40272"},"modified":"2017-08-06T00:46:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T04:46:18","slug":"mr-bilbo-baggins-on-heroism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/mr-bilbo-baggins-on-heroism\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Bilbo Baggins on Heroism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any improbable hero<br \/>\nis a little timid at first,<br \/>\nsticks to himself,<br \/>\nmutters a lot. I\u2019m<br \/>\nno exception. <\/p>\n<p>Today, I\u2019d probably join<br \/>\nin a Women\u2019s March,<br \/>\nbut only if my friends urged<br \/>\nme on. Pink hat? Not likely.<br \/>\nBut I\u2019d consider carrying a sign.<\/p>\n<p>Still, you can\u2019t make a difference<br \/>\nif you aren\u2019t faced with an impossible choice.<br \/>\nI\u2019m pretty sure now that not just anyone<br \/>\ncould have found their way out<br \/>\nof the Mirkwood forests. Some of us<br \/>\ncan\u2019t even kill a little spider,<br \/>\nlet alone a giant one. Though once given<br \/>\nthe task, I did faint right after. But I<br \/>\nawoke oddly filled with courage.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t always take courage<br \/>\nto be a hero. Sometimes,<br \/>\nall that matters is a bit of wit<br \/>\nand a gentle heart.<br \/>\nOh, and I still mutter a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any improbable hero is a little timid at first, sticks to himself, mutters a lot. I\u2019m no exception. Today, I\u2019d probably join in a Women\u2019s March, but only if my friends urged me on. Pink hat? Not likely. But I\u2019d consider carrying a sign. Still,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40272","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\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40293,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40272\/revisions\/40293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}