{"id":64896,"date":"2020-06-27T12:44:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64896"},"modified":"2020-06-27T12:44:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:44:11","slug":"hard-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hard-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cracks cackle&#8230;<br \/>\nThe canvas with spills of ink<br \/>\nLeaves trails of smears&#8230;<br \/>\nThe mind thuds hard<br \/>\nTo the discordant tunes of hard life&#8230;<br \/>\nWith the burden of living near zilch<\/p>\n<p>Life is hard<br \/>\nWhen the financial rhythm wobbles<\/p>\n<p>When the ugly rage of hunger beckons<br \/>\nTo an empty pocket<\/p>\n<p>Life is hard when the landlord bellows to your depleting pocket<\/p>\n<p>Your muse also fizzles to the whiff of the thankless moon at twilight&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Life is hard<br \/>\nWhen the rains<br \/>\nDrought-turns<br \/>\nAnd sunset spins to<br \/>\nSunrise at dusk<\/p>\n<p>Life is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cracks cackle&#8230; The canvas with spills of ink Leaves trails of smears&#8230; The mind thuds hard To the discordant tunes of hard life&#8230; With the burden of living near zilch Life is hard When the financial rhythm wobbles When the ugly rage of hunger&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3586],"class_list":["post-64896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-3586"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64896","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\/1467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64920,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64896\/revisions\/64920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}