{"id":56769,"date":"2019-06-23T05:22:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56769"},"modified":"2019-06-23T05:22:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:22:41","slug":"dear-graduates-hour-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/dear-graduates-hour-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Graduates (Hour 18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Graduates,<\/p>\n<p>An entire class of walking portraits,<br \/>\nemerging selves eclipsed by worried dreams<br \/>\nshuffling through illusionary thresholds,<br \/>\ninitiated by the anxiety of insecure authority<br \/>\ngoverning by mandate<br \/>\nwhile still teaching through sleepless hearts.<\/p>\n<p>A world of wild dreams chase you,<br \/>\nuntouched and promising, your lips speak of a<br \/>\nrelevance somewhere between the safety of naivety<br \/>\nand the dark truth of responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Structured learning taught you to function as a mass<br \/>\nwithin a system that produces the individual as a part of the whole.<br \/>\nHow much will you rise above the rest? Or how far will you fall from where you stand?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s up to you now, anything more you want from the world<br \/>\nhas to begin with your efforts. It won&#8217;t merely be provided.<br \/>\nNo one is entitled to care about your feelings,<br \/>\nor to listen to what you think. If you want those<br \/>\nrelationships you have to cultivate them.<\/p>\n<p>Create your path, or life has a way of creating it for you.<br \/>\nBut wouldn&#8217;t you rather choose it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Graduates, An entire class of walking portraits, emerging selves eclipsed by worried dreams shuffling through illusionary thresholds, initiated by the anxiety of insecure authority governing by mandate while still teaching through sleepless hearts. A world of wild dreams chase you, untouched and promising, your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56769","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56777,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56769\/revisions\/56777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}