{"id":71032,"date":"2020-06-27T20:28:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71032"},"modified":"2020-06-28T01:21:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T05:21:43","slug":"hour-12-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-12-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Borrowed Line from Beginning\/End of Random Book Prompt (Hour 12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Borrowed Line:<\/strong> \u201cThere is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.\u201d Albert Camus <em>The Myth of Sisyphus<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Is life worth living?<br \/>\nOne serious question that demands attention<br \/>\nbefore any others can follow.<br \/>\nThe boulder, the weight you bear,<br \/>\npenance in the mundane.<br \/>\nA punishing pursuit that grants order<br \/>\nin an absurd reality.<\/p>\n<p>The procession of hours, days, seasons, meaningless<br \/>\nEvery moment, suffering that bears no proof of purpose.<br \/>\nSuicide, a thought bordering within reason,<br \/>\nthough defiance is a fresh wound still losing blood.<\/p>\n<p>The mind and the body unite in their labor,<br \/>\nperhaps there is a resolution to this problem,<br \/>\nto embrace the conditional strife of existence,<br \/>\nwith the philosophical fullness of being,<br \/>\ncreate meaning where meaning is missing.<br \/>\nDethrone punitive gods by truly knowing reality,<br \/>\nwith all of its misery, manifest contentment,<br \/>\nIn the discord of broken pieces, fragmented, unconnected,<br \/>\nthere is a harmony that leads to happiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borrowed Line: \u201cThere is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.\u201d Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus Is life worth living? One serious question that demands attention before any others can follow. The boulder, the weight you bear, penance in the mundane&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":965,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71032","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\/965"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73459,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71032\/revisions\/73459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}