{"id":45301,"date":"2019-06-15T09:45:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T13:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=45301"},"modified":"2019-06-15T09:45:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T13:45:57","slug":"solitudes-two-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/solitudes-two-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"Solitude&#8217;s Two Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nurturing, affirming, comforting\u2014solitude<br \/>\nQuiets fears and calms the troubled spirit.<br \/>\nDistracting thoughts need not intrude.<br \/>\nBeing left alone, one need not fear it:<br \/>\nSolitude<\/p>\n<p>Disquieting, ever-encroaching\u2014solitude<br \/>\nDestroys the mind and weakens the spirit.<br \/>\nObsessive-fearful thoughts it now broods.<br \/>\nFriendship is one way to steer clear it:<br \/>\nSolitude<\/p>\n<p>Are you lonely, with troubles laden?<br \/>\nCompulsively jaded, needless fretting,<br \/>\nDepressed youth, elder, or maiden,<br \/>\nWho could use personality resetting,<br \/>\nFeeling always too much put upon?<br \/>\nTake this friendly tip and join a group,<br \/>\nWith some others occasionally troop.<br \/>\nBurdens solved are burned shared<br \/>\nIf one connects with those who care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Nurturing, affirming, comforting\u2014solitude Quiets fears and calms the troubled spirit. Distracting thoughts need not intrude. Being left alone, one need not fear it: Solitude Disquieting, ever-encroaching\u2014solitude Destroys the mind and weakens the spirit. Obsessive-fearful thoughts it now broods. Friendship is one way to steer&#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-45301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45301","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=45301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45302,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45301\/revisions\/45302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}