{"id":64221,"date":"2020-06-27T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64221"},"modified":"2020-07-01T15:32:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T19:32:59","slug":"begin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/begin-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can we heal all the hurt in the world?<br \/>\nUndo the past and the harms that linger?<br \/>\nHow can we stop the blaming, shaming, and wagging of the finger?<br \/>\nHow do we right the wrongs that abound.<br \/>\nTo create change we\u2019re so desperate to see.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t have all the answers, but it begins with you and me.<\/p>\n<p>When will the painful judgments stop?<br \/>\nand when will we cherish each other?<br \/>\nWhen will stop seeing otherness?<br \/>\nand instead see our sisters and brothers?<br \/>\nWhen will we live up to the promise<br \/>\nof all this country was intended to be?<br \/>\nWhen will hear freedom ring from sea to shining sea?<br \/>\nI don\u2019t have all the answers, but it begins with you and me.<\/p>\n<p>Who will start the journey from our painful past to healing?<br \/>\nWho will find find expression for all we have been feeling?<br \/>\nWho will build the bridge from where we are to where we&#8217;re going?<br \/>\nWho will use their wisdom and our expanding sense of knowing?<br \/>\nWho will light the fire, to spark the change we wish to see.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t have all the answers, but it begins with you and me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can we heal all the hurt in the world? Undo the past and the harms that linger? How can we stop the blaming, shaming, and wagging of the finger? How do we right the wrongs that abound. To create change we\u2019re so desperate to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,5],"tags":[2180],"class_list":["post-64221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-poetry-prompts","tag-hour3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64221","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\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64221"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77894,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64221\/revisions\/77894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}