{"id":69581,"date":"2020-06-27T18:25:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=69581"},"modified":"2020-06-27T18:26:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:26:33","slug":"simplicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/simplicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplicity &#8211; Hour 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world can be so simple<br \/>\nIf we stop to take a pause<br \/>\nOnly complex as we make it<br \/>\nWithout any real just cause<br \/>\nThe beauty in a moonbeam<br \/>\nOr shadow of the night<br \/>\nToo often lost beneath the bustle<br \/>\nOf each bright city light<\/p>\n<p>The colors of the sunrise<br \/>\nOr those as nighttime dawns<br \/>\nSo oftentimes forgotten<br \/>\nOr hardly looked upon<br \/>\nFor we are just too busy<br \/>\nTo stop and take a breath<br \/>\nUntil we reach a moment<br \/>\nWhen there are few moments left<\/p>\n<p>How much of life is valued<br \/>\nHow much of it is lost<br \/>\nWhat is really important<br \/>\nAnd if so, at what cost<br \/>\nThe world can be so simple<br \/>\nIt is, if lest we try<br \/>\nTo seize each passing memory<br \/>\n&#8216;fore it passes us by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world can be so simple If we stop to take a pause Only complex as we make it Without any real just cause The beauty in a moonbeam Or shadow of the night Too often lost beneath the bustle Of each bright city light&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,1136,441],"tags":[680,1173,1806,3456,3756,3755],"class_list":["post-69581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-half-marathon","tag-jill-eisnaugle","tag-jill-halasz","tag-life-poems","tag-moonshadow-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69581","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\/1313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69651,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69581\/revisions\/69651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}