{"id":45276,"date":"2019-06-15T03:34:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T07:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=45276"},"modified":"2019-06-15T03:34:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T07:34:41","slug":"hyperbole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hyperbole\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyperbole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hyperbole, exaggeration, amplification, or Texas brag,<br \/>\nAggrandizement and fabrication sometimes hits a snag.<br \/>\n<em>Marvel<\/em>ing we have world enough and time, <em>Je t&#8217;adore<\/em>;<br \/>\nLest love and respect strides right out and slams the door.<br \/>\nAs for the claim Lytton\u2019s pen is mightier than the sword,<br \/>\nPolitical correctness marches in, tossing truth on the floor.<br \/>\nClimate does change, It\u2019s Apocalypse now; the end is near;<br \/>\nElse taxpayers pay through their noses, the choice is clear.<br \/>\nRid the world of farting cows, politicos are now chastising.<br \/>\nBut invest in oil leases, financial managers are still advising.<br \/>\nConspiracy, collusion, treason&#8211;both sides of the aisle exclaim<br \/>\nBut each side could look directly in the mirror to fix the blame.<br \/>\nMeanwhile diets and exercise regimes promise eternal youth;<br \/>\nAlas, one look in the mirror reveals a harsher than harsh truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyperbole, exaggeration, amplification, or Texas brag, Aggrandizement and fabrication sometimes hits a snag. Marveling we have world enough and time, Je t&#8217;adore; Lest love and respect strides right out and slams the door. As for the claim Lytton\u2019s pen is mightier than the sword, Political&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45276","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\/979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45277,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45276\/revisions\/45277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}