{"id":53923,"date":"2019-06-22T21:44:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T01:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=53923"},"modified":"2019-06-22T22:00:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T02:00:30","slug":"pother-hour-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/pother-hour-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Pother, Hour 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the streets, a tension<br \/>\nAtrocities an every day occurence<br \/>\nFights at family gatherings<br \/>\nBattle lines drawn<br \/>\nOpinions divided<br \/>\nPolarized and radicalized<\/p>\n<p>Every action garners a reaction<br \/>\nAnd a reaction to the reactionaries<br \/>\nPerpetual pandemonium<br \/>\nWhile pundits preach lies about the other side<br \/>\nBlue vs Red<br \/>\nRich vs Poor<br \/>\nBlack vs White<br \/>\nLeft vs Right<br \/>\nRight shuffled aside for the need to be right<\/p>\n<p>But both sides are really wrong<br \/>\nEmbroiled in conflict over trivialities<br \/>\nWhile elite contemplate humanity&#8217;s finality<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it possible to align but not agree?<br \/>\nTo accept variety of opinion as a means of better seeing?<br \/>\nBetter scheming ways to subvert the powers-that-be?<\/p>\n<p>We dither over nonsense,<br \/>\nObsess on the inconsequential,<br \/>\nAttack the unknown with preformulated views and arguments<br \/>\nAs if we could ever decipher the immense spectrum of opinions<br \/>\nAs if we really know anything at all<\/p>\n<p>Anyone claiming absolute truth<br \/>\nDrives me up a fuckin wall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the streets, a tension Atrocities an every day occurence Fights at family gatherings Battle lines drawn Opinions divided Polarized and radicalized Every action garners a reaction And a reaction to the reactionaries Perpetual pandemonium While pundits preach lies about the other side Blue vs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":781,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53923","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\/781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54143,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53923\/revisions\/54143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}