{"id":87646,"date":"2021-06-26T19:55:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87646"},"modified":"2021-06-26T19:55:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:55:08","slug":"hour-one-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-one-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The people are hungry for the end of the world<br \/>\nEager for revolution and rapture<br \/>\nLike a culture of craven, ravenous wolves<br \/>\nEver poised on the brink of disaster<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps its a remnant of some darker time<br \/>\nWhich calls to us from across the ages<br \/>\nA reminder that the annuls of time<br \/>\nAre written on hearts and not on pages<\/p>\n<p>All great empires are destined to fall<br \/>\nI assure you, ours, too, will surely crumble<br \/>\nIndeed, all great towers are right to tremble<br \/>\nWhen the fragile earth begins to rumble<\/p>\n<p>Still, our end remains imminent<br \/>\nPressing on us from all sides<br \/>\nPowerless to change our incumbent fate<br \/>\nSuch is the ebb and flow of tides<\/p>\n<p>Is it some specious impulse<br \/>\nAn obligation otherwise repressed<br \/>\nSave for the artistically induced hum<br \/>\nOf our collective consciousness<\/p>\n<p>Seek the end but don&#8217;t force it<br \/>\nAll of this is finite in virtue and form<br \/>\nNever forget that we are but visitors here<br \/>\nFor no one survives the storm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people are hungry for the end of the world Eager for revolution and rapture Like a culture of craven, ravenous wolves Ever poised on the brink of disaster Perhaps its a remnant of some darker time Which calls to us from across the ages&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87646","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96746,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87646\/revisions\/96746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}