{"id":54664,"date":"2019-06-22T23:15:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T03:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=54664"},"modified":"2019-06-23T02:49:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T06:49:54","slug":"b-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/b-h\/","title":{"rendered":"B.H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before<br \/>\nHumans<br \/>\nthere was peace<\/p>\n<p>There was predation, yes,<br \/>\nand pain, but the world lacked the<br \/>\ntorture, murder, and blatant selfishness<br \/>\nthat only the human animal<br \/>\nbrings to the proverbial table.<\/p>\n<p>Before people, there was nature.<br \/>\nBack when ever-expanding cities<br \/>\n(who now bulldoze all<br \/>\nthat stands in their way)<br \/>\nweren\u2019t even a thought. Weren\u2019t presumed<br \/>\nthe necessity (to whom?) that they now are.<br \/>\nThe natural world was unscathed by our<br \/>\ngreed, our endless capacity for destruction. <\/p>\n<p>Before men and women, there were animals,<br \/>\nnow long since deceased. Our thoughtless<br \/>\nactions the direct cause of their species<br \/>\ndying.<br \/>\nWe don\u2019t notice, refuse to open our<br \/>\neyes, as long as their absence<br \/>\ndoesn\u2019t affect our standard of living.<\/p>\n<p>The world was far better off<br \/>\nbefore<br \/>\nhumans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Humans there was peace There was predation, yes, and pain, but the world lacked the torture, murder, and blatant selfishness that only the human animal brings to the proverbial table. Before people, there was nature. Back when ever-expanding cities (who now bulldoze all that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54664","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\/1218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55896,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54664\/revisions\/55896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}