{"id":87681,"date":"2021-06-26T09:36:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87681"},"modified":"2021-06-26T09:36:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:36:25","slug":"endings-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/endings-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Endings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Better to focus on bad things&#8211;<br \/>\nthis record-breaking heat. Picture<br \/>\na baby-boomer under the hostile sky<br \/>\nsmashing his beloved scratched-up LPs.<br \/>\nOr this clever ever-evolving virus<br \/>\nwhose one goal is our erasure.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;d we do to deserve this?<br \/>\nProbably plenty, in our denseness.<br \/>\nAnd the racism with all its bulwarks,<br \/>\ninstitutionally made to seem eternal?<br \/>\nMay it and all other plagues die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better to focus on bad things&#8211; this record-breaking heat. Picture a baby-boomer under the hostile sky smashing his beloved scratched-up LPs. Or this clever ever-evolving virus whose one goal is our erasure. What&#8217;d we do to deserve this? Probably plenty, in our denseness. And the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87681","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\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87912,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87681\/revisions\/87912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}