{"id":69423,"date":"2020-06-27T19:23:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=69423"},"modified":"2020-06-27T19:23:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:23:36","slug":"off-the-rat-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/off-the-rat-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the rat race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Off the Rat Race<\/p>\n<p>It is silent<br \/>\nIt is always silent, now<br \/>\nIt is quiet<br \/>\nIt is always quiet, now<br \/>\nIt is still<br \/>\nIt is always still, now<br \/>\nI can hear a pin drop<br \/>\nI can hear a faint sigh<br \/>\nNo ariya( merry making) to be had<br \/>\nNo movement of any kind<br \/>\nA total cessation of the rat race<br \/>\nThat had characterised our former existence<br \/>\nIn short, it was our very existence<br \/>\nWe lived for it<br \/>\nWe longed for it<br \/>\nWe yearned for it<br \/>\nNow, we are on lock down<br \/>\nWe\u2019re on a leash!<br \/>\nEncaged<br \/>\nEncased<br \/>\nBound after a manner!<br \/>\nA kinda house arrest!<br \/>\nWe can only hope we\u2019ll be let off the leash soon<br \/>\nTo pick up where we left off<br \/>\nIn the rat race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off the Rat Race It is silent It is always silent, now It is quiet It is always quiet, now It is still It is always still, now I can hear a pin drop I can hear a faint sigh No ariya( merry making) to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1421,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69423","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\/1421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70319,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69423\/revisions\/70319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}