{"id":47205,"date":"2019-06-22T10:33:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=47205"},"modified":"2019-06-22T10:33:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:33:38","slug":"brief-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/brief-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idealists know that the hero must win<br \/>\nAnd pessimists know that ideals are for fools<br \/>\nSuffering brings its own wisdom, of sorts,<br \/>\nBut maturity comes when ideals are regained.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh-faced and kind-hearted,<br \/>\nFlat-footed and dim,<br \/>\nIdealists know that the hero must win.<\/p>\n<p>Betrayed and abandoned,<br \/>\nShell-shocked and schooled,<br \/>\nAnd pessimists know that ideals are for fools.<\/p>\n<p>Life-hardened, resilient,<br \/>\nIn deeds and in thoughts.<br \/>\nSuffering brings its own wisdom, of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>Come forth, sprout of kindness!<br \/>\nFeel joy and, yes, pain.<br \/>\nBut maturity comes when ideals are regained.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Form: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowpoetry.com\/resources\/wip\/cascade.html\">Cascade<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the dominant theme of <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/kwillsen\/poetic-procrastination\/\">the fantasy novel I should be writing this weekend<\/a>. See, I <em>am<\/em> working on it after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idealists know that the hero must win And pessimists know that ideals are for fools Suffering brings its own wisdom, of sorts, But maturity comes when ideals are regained. Fresh-faced and kind-hearted, Flat-footed and dim, Idealists know that the hero must win. Betrayed and abandoned,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2844,2813,710,2842,2843],"class_list":["post-47205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-fiction","tag-formal","tag-hour-two","tag-ideals","tag-maturity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47205","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\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47318,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47205\/revisions\/47318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}