{"id":87522,"date":"2021-06-26T09:46:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87522"},"modified":"2021-06-26T09:46:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:46:42","slug":"graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birth, then life\u2019s journey, a term\u2019s initiation,<\/p>\n<p>followed by death, an auspicious occasion.<\/p>\n<p>However celebrated, just another graduation.<\/p>\n<p>Whether lived by a valedictorian<\/p>\n<p>Or a lowly sinner who just keeps on sinning<\/p>\n<p>Is it just the finale, or is it the beginning\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Only a life well lost or a quest worth-winning?<\/p>\n<p>For in the grand scheme of things, ultimate success<\/p>\n<p>Might mean it\u2019s hard to tell the starts from the endings.<\/p>\n<p>Since memory erases flaws and remembers the best.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birth, then life\u2019s journey, a term\u2019s initiation, followed by death, an auspicious occasion. However celebrated, just another graduation. Whether lived by a valedictorian Or a lowly sinner who just keeps on sinning Is it just the finale, or is it the beginning\u2014 Only a life&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87522","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\/979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88041,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87522\/revisions\/88041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}