{"id":65343,"date":"2020-06-27T13:20:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65343"},"modified":"2020-06-27T21:48:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:48:28","slug":"hardened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hardened\/","title":{"rendered":"#5 Hardened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was soft once for it<\/p>\n<p>believed in old adages,<\/p>\n<p>good begets good, justice will be served<\/p>\n<p>and the likes.<\/p>\n<p>But day after day, its belief was torn to shreds,<\/p>\n<p>honesty was ridiculed, thieves were rewarded,<\/p>\n<p>fools were celebrated and monsters emerged victorious.<\/p>\n<p>It hardened gradually, it learned slowly<\/p>\n<p>That the kind and fair no longer had place in this world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-Prachi S<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was soft once for it believed in old adages, good begets good, justice will be served and the likes. But day after day, its belief was torn to shreds, honesty was ridiculed, thieves were rewarded, fools were celebrated and monsters emerged victorious. It hardened&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65343","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\/1442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65440,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65343\/revisions\/65440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}