{"id":66889,"date":"2020-06-27T15:36:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=66889"},"modified":"2020-06-27T15:41:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:41:19","slug":"matter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/matter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the matter?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are born from matter<\/p>\n<p>We are made of matter<\/p>\n<p>We will return to matter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The things that made us unique<\/p>\n<p>Taken back into the bigger aggregate<\/p>\n<p>And that matters too<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To be matter is simply to occupy space<\/p>\n<p>But to matter is to take the forefront<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are made of matter<\/p>\n<p>And yet we get to choose what matters to us<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Can it be a coincidence that a word<\/p>\n<p>Used to describe the basest form existence<\/p>\n<p>Is also used to elevate one person, event, or circumstance above another?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This matter of language and words<\/p>\n<p>Prose and poetry<\/p>\n<p>It too matters<\/p>\n<p>Even when it is not made of matter at all<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the matter? &nbsp; We are born from matter We are made of matter We will return to matter &nbsp; The things that made us unique Taken back into the bigger aggregate And that matters too &nbsp; To be matter is simply to occupy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":646,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66889","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\/646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67384,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66889\/revisions\/67384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}