{"id":63493,"date":"2020-06-27T11:35:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=63493"},"modified":"2020-06-27T20:50:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:50:46","slug":"63493","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/63493\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilumination, Hour 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the night sky start to illuminate<br \/>\nIlluminate darkness of collective misunderstanding<br \/>\nIlluminate the truth obscured by darkness of confusion<br \/>\nInsight dispelling delusions of a false conception<br \/>\nHope giving rise to a new concept of freedom<br \/>\nFreedom from the defilement of understanding<\/p>\n<p>Enlighten everything<\/p>\n<p>So much information and so little wisdom<br \/>\nAppeal to emotions instead of rationality<br \/>\nPander to base instincts, knee jerk reactions<br \/>\nPolarized perceptions and preconceived notions<br \/>\nShedding thin-skinned superficial rhetoric<br \/>\nPathetic attempts to shift blame away from the real causes<br \/>\nAttacking the symptoms instead the system<br \/>\nRadicalize, grasp the problem at its roots<\/p>\n<p>Enlighten everything<\/p>\n<p>Recognize the solution is a grudging acceptance<br \/>\nIt is what it is, not what we wish it could be<br \/>\nTo live in our illusions is blissful, sweet comfort,<br \/>\nIgnorance and holding on to a defiled mindset<br \/>\nSo no regrets, open mind to terrible beauty of the infinite<br \/>\nAdapt to the ever-changing flow of energy<\/p>\n<p>Enlighten everything<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the night sky start to illuminate Illuminate darkness of collective misunderstanding Illuminate the truth obscured by darkness of confusion Insight dispelling delusions of a false conception Hope giving rise to a new concept of freedom Freedom from the defilement of understanding Enlighten everything So&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":781,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63493","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\/781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64022,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63493\/revisions\/64022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}