{"id":63783,"date":"2020-06-27T11:38:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=63783"},"modified":"2020-06-27T11:39:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:39:29","slug":"3-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/3-5\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 &#8211; 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The voices once quiet,<br \/>\nThe ones unheard, ignored,<br \/>\nEven silenced at times.<br \/>\nThey get louder. They echo<br \/>\nIn chambers we built<br \/>\nTo contain them.<\/p>\n<p>But the cycle never ends.<\/p>\n<p>The voices get louder.<br \/>\nThe faces get seen.<br \/>\nNo longer veiled by<br \/>\nThe darkness we impose.<\/p>\n<p>They speak of such horrors<br \/>\nWe cover our ears.<br \/>\nWe cover our eyes.<br \/>\nTheir reality is not ours.<\/p>\n<p>And the cycle never ends.<\/p>\n<p>We take their words and<br \/>\nAttempt to change them.<br \/>\nWe hide behind the ways<br \/>\nThey chose to say them.<br \/>\nWe draw the line between<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s real for them and us.<\/p>\n<p>So the cycle never ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The voices once quiet, The ones unheard, ignored, Even silenced at times. They get louder. They echo In chambers we built To contain them. But the cycle never ends. The voices get louder. The faces get seen. No longer veiled by The darkness we impose&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[3549,3534,1254,1760,3552,3551,3550,1639],"class_list":["post-63783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-argument","tag-bop","tag-equality","tag-meaning","tag-perspectives","tag-protests","tag-realities","tag-voices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63783","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\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63993,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63783\/revisions\/63993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}