{"id":89837,"date":"2021-06-26T12:48:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=89837"},"modified":"2021-07-04T13:18:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T17:18:35","slug":"viva-la-vida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/viva-la-vida\/","title":{"rendered":"Viva La Vida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because nobody else will.<\/p>\n<p>Those nostalgic days of yesteryear forever<\/p>\n<p>seared into my memory have become<\/p>\n<p>indelible symbols of the ornate uniqueness of<\/p>\n<p>existence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How many times did we play soccer during lunchtime<\/p>\n<p>or go ice skating without any skates?<\/p>\n<p>Commandeering the slide for our own glorious purpose<\/p>\n<p>and swinging up to endless heights.<\/p>\n<p>Dunking on our own hopes and dreams and<\/p>\n<p>carving our own niche in a world that could never comprehend what it truly means to be alive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Through the summits and bases,<\/p>\n<p>we never lost that childlike wonder that defines us.<\/p>\n<p>Because it&#8217;s eternal.<\/p>\n<p>Because we were out there searching for a meaning<\/p>\n<p>that was right in front of us the entire time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because nobody else will. Those nostalgic days of yesteryear forever seared into my memory have become indelible symbols of the ornate uniqueness of existence. &nbsp; How many times did we play soccer during lunchtime or go ice skating without any skates? Commandeering the slide for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":796,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89837","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\/796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104018,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89837\/revisions\/104018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}