{"id":50294,"date":"2019-06-22T15:30:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=50294"},"modified":"2019-06-22T17:33:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:33:35","slug":"if-youll-excuse-my-cliche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/if-youll-excuse-my-cliche\/","title":{"rendered":"If You&#8217;ll Excuse My Cliche&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing seems to lock a box<br \/>\nand throw away the key<br \/>\nlike religion.<\/p>\n<p>Who makes the rules?<br \/>\nGod?<br \/>\nWhose version of God?<\/p>\n<p>Who writes the holy texts?<br \/>\nWho interprets them?<br \/>\nWho gets to decide what is and isn&#8217;t sin?<\/p>\n<p>What is sin, anyway?<br \/>\nIf it&#8217;s a sin to hurt another,<br \/>\nshaming is a sin.<br \/>\nShame destroys.<\/p>\n<p>Who says it&#8217;s wrong to question God?<br \/>\nGod&#8217;s existence?<br \/>\nHeaven and hell?<br \/>\nTo question anything?<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s only one right way to heaven,<br \/>\nwhy are there so many different roads<br \/>\nand road maps?<br \/>\nDraw your own damn map!<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get locked in to someone else&#8217;s prison<br \/>\nof beliefs, someone else&#8217;s definition<br \/>\nof good, bad, holy, unholy.<br \/>\nSeek your own truth.<\/p>\n<p>Love and compassion<br \/>\nare the only holy texts<br \/>\nyou need. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing seems to lock a box and throw away the key like religion. Who makes the rules? God? Whose version of God? Who writes the holy texts? Who interprets them? Who gets to decide what is and isn&#8217;t sin? What is sin, anyway? If it&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50294","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\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50527,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50294\/revisions\/50527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}