{"id":69479,"date":"2020-06-27T18:15:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=69479"},"modified":"2020-06-27T18:15:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:15:45","slug":"war-is-inevitable-hour-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/war-is-inevitable-hour-10\/","title":{"rendered":"War is Inevitable &#8211; Hour 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is war?<br \/>\nThat horrible event we fear so<br \/>\nGod forbid I shall ever have to experience it<br \/>\nThe destruction, pain and death<br \/>\nThe injustice, anarchy and stress<br \/>\nWhat a cruel way to play out a political game<\/p>\n<p>What is war?<br \/>\nA means to a transformative end<br \/>\nFreedom, justice, prosperity for all<br \/>\nRewards worth dying for<br \/>\nThe last promise of respite for the desperate<br \/>\nTo ignite a paradigm shift for posterity<br \/>\nWhen any change is better than the status quo<\/p>\n<p>Like any drama<br \/>\nWar piques our interest<br \/>\nBut only for a second or two<br \/>\nMost just last for too long<br \/>\nToo many seasons and plot twists<br \/>\nReality reflected on overdrive<br \/>\nMany fight till they forget why they started fighting in the first place<br \/>\nFunding the greatest con in the history of the world<br \/>\nThe belief that war is inevitable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is war? That horrible event we fear so God forbid I shall ever have to experience it The destruction, pain and death The injustice, anarchy and stress What a cruel way to play out a political game What is war? A means to a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69479","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\/1399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69493,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69479\/revisions\/69493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}