{"id":47947,"date":"2019-06-22T11:35:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T15:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=47947"},"modified":"2019-06-22T11:35:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T15:35:59","slug":"the-refuse-of-our-insatiable-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-refuse-of-our-insatiable-need\/","title":{"rendered":"The refuse of our insatiable need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We make so much ado about our stuff<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I need that.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>she said<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I want that.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>he said<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll have that.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>they said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Bags and bins in piles of piles and dumpsters and pods and piles and piles and more piles of shit<\/p>\n<p>but in the end it\u2019s all leftovers<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>it\u2019s<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>all<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>junk<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s all just stuff<\/p>\n<p>Didn\u2019t realize how much stuff I was collecting when it was all in one place.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now, scattered about in different piles in different places I ask<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>how much do I really need beyond the clothes on my back and the friends in my life?<\/p>\n<p>As if I could visit the stuff from the formless realm as easily as I could connect with my friends and family.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>More stuff does not mean more life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We make so much ado about our stuff\u00a0 I need that.\u00a0 she said\u00a0 I want that.\u00a0 he said\u00a0 I\u2019ll have that.\u00a0 they said&#8230; Bags and bins in piles of piles and dumpsters and pods and piles and piles and more piles of shit but in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":907,"featured_media":47990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47947","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\/907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48049,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47947\/revisions\/48049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}