{"id":51609,"date":"2019-06-22T17:51:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=51609"},"modified":"2019-12-29T04:25:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T09:25:01","slug":"prompt-11-the-jataka-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/prompt-11-the-jataka-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 11:   The J\u0101taka Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Were I to come as a wild thing.<\/p>\n<p>By what form would learning bring:<\/p>\n<p>flora, fauna, insect slug,<\/p>\n<p>ant or bird or black tautaug?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If I were born to poor disgrace;<\/p>\n<p>Would you yet see a human face?<\/p>\n<p>Black man, white man\u2014 in between,<\/p>\n<p>would you think; I know something?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are truths to learn from all.<\/p>\n<p>Buddha teachers\u2014 great and small.<\/p>\n<p>Open up yourself\u2014 discern.<\/p>\n<p>All are books\u2014 from all, you learn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were I to come as a wild thing. By what form would learning bring: flora, fauna, insect slug, ant or bird or black tautaug? &nbsp; If I were born to poor disgrace; Would you yet see a human face? Black man, white man\u2014 in between,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51609","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\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51609"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59758,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51609\/revisions\/59758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}