{"id":43228,"date":"2017-08-06T08:53:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=43228"},"modified":"2017-08-06T08:53:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:53:15","slug":"2024-relentlessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/2024-relentlessness\/","title":{"rendered":"(#20\/24): \u201cRelentlessness\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along the winding canal where there was once<\/p>\n<p>A long swath of overgrown grass,<\/p>\n<p>That turned into mud whenever it rained,<\/p>\n<p>Overnight, it was all gone.<\/p>\n<p>The unruly \u2018lallang\u2019 removed, soil levelled,<\/p>\n<p>And the ground topped over with concrete.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And yet, scarce months later,<\/p>\n<p>The first green shoots sprouted up<\/p>\n<p>And out through every single gap,<\/p>\n<p>Nook and cranny in the concrete.<\/p>\n<p>Modernity cannot be stopped,<\/p>\n<p>But nature always finds a way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2017 S Phua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along the winding canal where there was once A long swath of overgrown grass, That turned into mud whenever it rained, Overnight, it was all gone. The unruly \u2018lallang\u2019 removed, soil levelled, And the ground topped over with concrete. &nbsp; And yet, scarce months later,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43228","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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43230,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43228\/revisions\/43230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}