{"id":54256,"date":"2019-06-22T22:14:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T02:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=54256"},"modified":"2019-06-22T22:14:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T02:14:53","slug":"gaokao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/gaokao\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaokao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GaoKao<br \/>\nVirginia Carraway Stark <\/p>\n<p>If there was a battle cry<br \/>\nAnd all the years were packed<br \/>\nInto an afternoon<br \/>\nOf luck and hard work<br \/>\nThe future determined<br \/>\nBy what that day might bring<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know that<br \/>\nI&#8217;d be more or less capable<br \/>\nThan any of my peers<br \/>\nI can see why the stars<br \/>\nAnd omens in the sky<br \/>\nWould matter more than anything<br \/>\nIf things were done in such a way<br \/>\nWith nary a second chance<br \/>\nIn a land where no one stands<br \/>\nAbove the others<br \/>\nIn any but a negatory way<br \/>\nHow sorry it would be<br \/>\nTo have your entire life<br \/>\ndecided in a moment<br \/>\nAn afternoon determining<br \/>\nThe future path<br \/>\nWho you may marry<br \/>\nThe approval of your ancestors<br \/>\nWhere your kids would go to school<br \/>\nThe sort of job you could acquire<br \/>\nAll from marks with your pencil<br \/>\nThat is the battle cry<br \/>\nIn a land far away<br \/>\nSo it has been for thousands of years<br \/>\nLikely so it will always be<br \/>\nGhosts are made by failure<br \/>\nDespair throwing people into the arms of death<br \/>\nLeaving the living to deal with demons<br \/>\nAll for the pass or fail on a test! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GaoKao Virginia Carraway Stark If there was a battle cry And all the years were packed Into an afternoon Of luck and hard work The future determined By what that day might bring I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;d be more or less capable Than any&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[3019,3156,3153,3155,3154,53,52],"class_list":["post-54256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-battle-cry-poetry","tag-gaokao","tag-poetry-on-china","tag-standardized-testing","tag-starklight-press","tag-virginia-carraway-stark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54256","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54326,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54256\/revisions\/54326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}