{"id":65766,"date":"2020-06-27T13:45:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65766"},"modified":"2020-06-27T13:45:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:45:10","slug":"the-orator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-orator\/","title":{"rendered":"The Orator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sandy Lender<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I craved understanding of his message.<\/p>\n<p>The ranting.<\/p>\n<p>The raving.<\/p>\n<p>That rabid passion could divert rivers<\/p>\n<p>to water desert lands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His eyes flashed like lightning announcing storms.<\/p>\n<p>Intensity.<\/p>\n<p>Piercing me.<\/p>\n<p>His voice thundered from the pulpit like Malachi<\/p>\n<p>Prophesying,<\/p>\n<p>Signaling doom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Drenched by the waves of his words,<\/p>\n<p>We swayed,<\/p>\n<p>We shouted,<\/p>\n<p>We screamed.<\/p>\n<p>Caught up by the virtues he triggered in us,<\/p>\n<p>We rose up.<\/p>\n<p>We rose up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The fire in his belly ignited the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>We rose up,<\/p>\n<p>As a force.<\/p>\n<p>And we thrashed from the hall<\/p>\n<p>to take over the world,<\/p>\n<p>Watering already flooded lands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sandy Lender &nbsp; I craved understanding of his message. The ranting. The raving. That rabid passion could divert rivers to water desert lands. &nbsp; His eyes flashed like lightning announcing storms. Intensity. Piercing me. His voice thundered from the pulpit like Malachi Prophesying, Signaling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65766","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\/1426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65785,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65766\/revisions\/65785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}