{"id":46786,"date":"2019-06-22T10:35:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=46786"},"modified":"2020-06-28T18:58:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T22:58:14","slug":"letter-to-the-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/letter-to-the-generations\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the Generations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/autumnsonlyone\/third-hour\/\">Third Hour<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Letter to the Generations<\/p>\n<p>Dear New and Coming Generations,<br \/>\nBaby Boomers, Millennials, Generation X.<br \/>\nWhat will be your legacy,<br \/>\nyour history, your next?<\/p>\n<p>Will your mark on this planet bare fruit,<br \/>\nor seeds of\u00a0 destruction?<br \/>\nWho will lead the nations,<br \/>\nwhat standards need reconstruction?<\/p>\n<p>The scholars, the priesthood,<br \/>\nthe rank and the file,<br \/>\nWill they leave dynasties or desolation,<br \/>\nbitterness and guile?<\/p>\n<p>Mark the generations from the first<br \/>\nto the last,<br \/>\nwhat lessons were learned<br \/>\nfrom our antecedents,<br \/>\nand from your past?<\/p>\n<p>Will each nation erect towers<br \/>\nto rise high through the clouds,<br \/>\nand feign superiority in wisdom,<br \/>\nright in the face of God?<br \/>\nWill they turn their swords into<br \/>\nPlows making fertile<br \/>\nthis barren sod?<\/p>\n<p>Consider the man, woman, and child<br \/>\nand number their days,<br \/>\nWill long life and prosperity<br \/>\nbe their reward?<br \/>\nWill millions die young,<br \/>\nFrom poverty and wars?<\/p>\n<p>Generation to generation,<br \/>\nlend me your ears.<br \/>\nWhat will you do in<br \/>\nthe next one hundred years?<br \/>\nWill the new,\u00a0accuse the prophets<br \/>\nand execute the seers?<\/p>\n<p>What gifts, what legacy,<br \/>\nWhat universal laws<br \/>\nWill be etched into stone?<br \/>\nWill they stand immutable,<br \/>\nUnbreakable, world-wide inherited,<br \/>\nforever renowned,<br \/>\nas the irrefutable<br \/>\nHighly Merited&#8230;<br \/>\nThe Chosen Generation?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Compton, CA 90222<br \/>\nJune 22, 2019@10:35<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third Hour Letter to the Generations Dear New and Coming Generations, Baby Boomers, Millennials, Generation X. What will be your legacy, your history, your next? Will your mark on this planet bare fruit, or seeds of\u00a0 destruction? Who will lead the nations, what standards need&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46786","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\/1186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46786"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59663,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46786\/revisions\/59663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}