{"id":92684,"date":"2021-06-26T15:29:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=92684"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:30:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:30:29","slug":"masquerades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/masquerades\/","title":{"rendered":"Masquerades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life streamed in a rectangle<\/p>\n<p>Farm<\/p>\n<p>Shrine<\/p>\n<p>Village square<\/p>\n<p>Home<\/p>\n<p>Until&#8230; the slave trade came<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Life shrunk into a triangle<\/p>\n<p>Office<\/p>\n<p>Worship<\/p>\n<p>Home<\/p>\n<p>Until&#8230;the virus came<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The virus came<\/p>\n<p>It locked us down<\/p>\n<p>It masked our collective breaths<\/p>\n<p>We walk the earth like masquerades<\/p>\n<p>From sunup to sun down<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then life goes round in a circle<\/p>\n<p>Work<\/p>\n<p>Home<\/p>\n<p>Repeat<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mother asked the other day<\/p>\n<p>Which is the worse slay?<\/p>\n<p>Slavery or this virus?<\/p>\n<p>Twain have dire consequences<\/p>\n<p>Death.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life streamed in a rectangle Farm Shrine Village square Home Until&#8230; the slave trade came &nbsp; Life shrunk into a triangle Office Worship Home Until&#8230;the virus came &nbsp; The virus came It locked us down It masked our collective breaths We walk the earth like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1355,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92684","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\/1355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93083,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92684\/revisions\/93083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}