{"id":50451,"date":"2019-06-22T16:04:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T20:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=50451"},"modified":"2019-06-22T18:45:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T22:45:53","slug":"the-sound-of-silence-hour-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-sound-of-silence-hour-7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sound of Silence (Hour 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hear the melodic notes and can&#8217;t help but cringe.<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t explain why.<br \/>\nWhen I hear the artsy, folksy tunes of today and yesterday,<br \/>\nI roll my eyes.<br \/>\nWhen I hear the upbeat, funky pop music of today and yesterday,<br \/>\nI shut it off.<br \/>\nWhen I hear the guitar riffs and power ballads of rock and roll,<br \/>\nI walk away.<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time, I had a song for every moment of my life.<br \/>\nA soundtrack of memories.<br \/>\nBut now, I only want to listen to the sound of silence.<br \/>\nSilence brings me peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hear the melodic notes and can&#8217;t help but cringe. I can&#8217;t explain why. When I hear the artsy, folksy tunes of today and yesterday, I roll my eyes. When I hear the upbeat, funky pop music of today and yesterday, I shut it off&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":812,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[2390,2293,2784],"class_list":["post-50451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-halfmarathon","tag-hour7","tag-poetrymarathon2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50451","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\/812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52445,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50451\/revisions\/52445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}