{"id":63475,"date":"2020-06-27T11:28:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=63475"},"modified":"2020-06-27T11:28:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:28:11","slug":"the-allure-of-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-allure-of-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Allure of Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NB: Very mild spoilers for <em>Portal 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>What is the allure of testing?<br \/>\nNever resting, striving after<br \/>\nNew disasters for the test<br \/>\nTo best a challenge thrown<br \/>\nBy unknown opponents<br \/>\nEnter the ring<\/p>\n<p>Testing, proving,<br \/>\nTrying, moving,<br \/>\nThinking, knowing,<br \/>\nLearning, growing.<\/p>\n<p>GLaDOS knows her drive, her itch,<br \/>\nThat which she says no longer rules her<br \/>\nNothing fools her but herself, perhaps,<br \/>\nWith traps of escalation.<br \/>\nThe player, though, as well<br \/>\nAs Chell, why seek the danger?<br \/>\nWhat is stranger than the human need<br \/>\nTo feed on tribulation?<\/p>\n<p>Testing, proving,<br \/>\nTrying, moving,<br \/>\nThinking, knowing,<br \/>\nLearning, growing.<\/p>\n<p>Tests are problems with solutions<br \/>\nSweet dilutions of real stress<br \/>\nLived duress with no way out<br \/>\nNo doubt that&#8217;s why we fly<br \/>\nTo try our metal in a place<br \/>\nWith rules and bounds.<\/p>\n<p>Testing, proving,<br \/>\nTrying, moving,<br \/>\nThinking, knowing,<br \/>\nLearning, growing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NB: Very mild spoilers for Portal 2. What is the allure of testing? Never resting, striving after New disasters for the test To best a challenge thrown By unknown opponents Enter the ring Testing, proving, Trying, moving, Thinking, knowing, Learning, growing. GLaDOS knows her drive,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[2180,3534,3482,3438],"class_list":["post-63475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-hour3","tag-bop","tag-portal","tag-portal-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63475","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\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63834,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63475\/revisions\/63834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}