{"id":65685,"date":"2020-06-27T13:39:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65685"},"modified":"2020-06-27T13:39:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:39:50","slug":"the-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Lake<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>shimmers like the dream it represents<\/p>\n<p>distant lights of Coeur d\u2019Alene a beacon<\/p>\n<p>of trust &#8211; we\u2019re not in this alone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and like many things<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s not always what it seems.<\/p>\n<p>we bathe in such calm waters<\/p>\n<p>fed by rivers from the hills.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>mines made money for a few<\/p>\n<p>provided hard work and jobs<\/p>\n<p>buried deep within the earth<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>trickle down washed to streams<\/p>\n<p>flowed into pristine lake<\/p>\n<p>hidden from view<\/p>\n<p>way down on the bottom<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>like trickle down economics<\/p>\n<p>as the gap widens between<\/p>\n<p>rich and poor<\/p>\n<p>healthy and sick<\/p>\n<p>haves and have not\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>invisible as a virus<\/p>\n<p>politicized until those at the top<\/p>\n<p>realize that they can\u2019t imagine it away.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>that reality is more than what they think<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the rest of us dive down to the bottom<\/p>\n<p>and wonder why the water seems<\/p>\n<p>a lot murkier than you\u2019d expect.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The Lake &nbsp; shimmers like the dream it represents distant lights of Coeur d\u2019Alene a beacon of trust &#8211; we\u2019re not in this alone. &nbsp; and like many things it\u2019s not always what it seems. we bathe in such calm waters fed by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65685","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65700,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65685\/revisions\/65700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}