{"id":72616,"date":"2020-06-27T23:22:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T03:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=72616"},"modified":"2020-06-27T23:22:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T03:22:40","slug":"choices-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/choices-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Half asleep<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You get up from your desk<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Strewn with half eaten snacks<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And half finished poems<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Going out to the balcony<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You look around desperately<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For inspiration, an idea, anything<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When you see it<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A road leading to another road<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The kids walking on it<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You realise it&#8217;s just like life<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Choices leading to other choices<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And you have no choice but to keep moving forward.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half asleep You get up from your desk Strewn with half eaten snacks And half finished poems &nbsp; Going out to the balcony You look around desperately For inspiration, an idea, anything When you see it &nbsp; A road leading to another road The kids&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72616","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\/843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72620,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72616\/revisions\/72620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}