{"id":57213,"date":"2019-06-23T06:51:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T10:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=57213"},"modified":"2019-06-24T08:35:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T12:35:04","slug":"57213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/57213\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Over Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Would it have been worth while,<\/div>\n<div>To have bitten off the matter with a smile,<\/div>\n<div>To standby and go the extra mile,<\/div>\n<div>To do as told, as though I were a child.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Would it have mattered one little bit,<\/div>\n<div>To have acted unscathed by all of it,<\/div>\n<div>To have hidden a candle that was already lit,<\/div>\n<div>To have the capacity to stand and yet sit.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>No<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>jj2019 2019 Poetry Marathon<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Opening lines from: <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Consolas, Monaco, monospace\">The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock BY <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Consolas, Monaco, monospace\">T. S. ELIOT<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To standby and go the extra mile, To do as told, as though I were a child. Would it have mattered one little bit, To have acted unscathed by all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":837,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12,2114,1136,441,5,1135,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","category-testimonials","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57213","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\/837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58332,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57213\/revisions\/58332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}