{"id":66942,"date":"2020-06-27T15:45:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=66942"},"modified":"2020-06-27T15:45:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:45:24","slug":"season-of-no-traction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/season-of-no-traction\/","title":{"rendered":"Season of No Traction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Yeats summed it up<br \/>\nand we didn&#8217;t listen.<br \/>\nWe seem never to listen.<\/p>\n<p>You know: no convictions, the good<br \/>\nup against the passionate intensity<br \/>\nof the ignorant, etc.<\/p>\n<p>How each hourly travesty is<br \/>\nquickly eclipsed by the next<br \/>\nso memory doesn&#8217;t function<\/p>\n<p>as we need it to. Where to begin<br \/>\nto reckon the awful toll greed<br \/>\nand heartlessness <\/p>\n<p>have already accrued? Nothing<br \/>\nsticks. The thefts from the masses<br \/>\nto give to the few, the infants<\/p>\n<p>in cages, the medical equipment<br \/>\nhoarded in a time of plague?<br \/>\nTime to screw our courage and<\/p>\n<p>our memories to a sticking-place.<br \/>\nThe murders. The mud slung so far<br \/>\njust runs down our walls. <\/p>\n<p>Pay attention to one day.<br \/>\nCall out the outrageous<br \/>\nwith true outrage. No<\/p>\n<p>traction, no action, no<br \/>\nsatisfaction. About face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Yeats summed it up and we didn&#8217;t listen. We seem never to listen. You know: no convictions, the good up against the passionate intensity of the ignorant, etc. How each hourly travesty is quickly eclipsed by the next so memory doesn&#8217;t function as we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66942","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\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67435,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66942\/revisions\/67435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}