{"id":63856,"date":"2020-06-27T11:29:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=63856"},"modified":"2020-06-29T16:50:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T20:50:21","slug":"the-age-of-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-age-of-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"The Age of Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its difficult to stay positive<br \/>\nWhen the world seems to be full of people<br \/>\nWho can\u2019t listen, who won\u2019t listen<br \/>\nTo anyone they disagree with<br \/>\nCondemning the other side as evil or traitors<br \/>\nRather than finding common ground<\/p>\n<p>We are living in the age of reason<br \/>\nAnd we all seem to have a reason to hate right now<\/p>\n<p>I understand why, its easier<br \/>\nTo just believe that the other side are wrong<br \/>\nAnd not just factually but morally<br \/>\nRemove them from the debate because they don\u2019t deserve<br \/>\nThe consideration we show to the people who agree with us<br \/>\nAnd its not like they wouldn\u2019t do the same thing to me<br \/>\nNuance is the enemy<br \/>\nAnd compromise defeat<\/p>\n<p>We are all living in the age of reason<br \/>\nAnd we all seem to have a reason to hate right now<\/p>\n<p>But this is not sustainable people<br \/>\nWe need to find common ground<br \/>\nLook across the barricade and see<br \/>\nAnother human being<br \/>\nConfused, distressed, fatally flawed<br \/>\nNo different from the rest of us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its difficult to stay positive When the world seems to be full of people Who can\u2019t listen, who won\u2019t listen To anyone they disagree with Condemning the other side as evil or traitors Rather than finding common ground We are living in the age of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1484,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63856","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\/1484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77640,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63856\/revisions\/77640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}