{"id":92894,"date":"2021-06-26T15:33:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=92894"},"modified":"2021-07-18T14:46:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T18:46:09","slug":"urban-pigeon-holes-and-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/urban-pigeon-holes-and-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Pigeon holes and Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-92886\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/michal-matlon-0GQmmhq_fLw-unsplash-scaled-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/michal-matlon-0GQmmhq_fLw-unsplash-scaled-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/michal-matlon-0GQmmhq_fLw-unsplash-scaled-1-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/michal-matlon-0GQmmhq_fLw-unsplash-scaled-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/michal-matlon-0GQmmhq_fLw-unsplash-scaled-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/michal-matlon-0GQmmhq_fLw-unsplash-scaled-1-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/michal-matlon-0GQmmhq_fLw-unsplash-scaled-1-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Living in pigeon holes<\/p>\n<p>boxed in with closed doors<\/p>\n<p>Restricted, obstructed, constricted views<\/p>\n<p>Brightly painted doors for happy beginnings<\/p>\n<p>Cities that lure with their fake promises<\/p>\n<p>playing with real lives<\/p>\n<p>Too hungry to refuse, they play along with a hope<\/p>\n<p>Someday, that door will open<\/p>\n<p>like a dream come true<\/p>\n<p>but to where, no one really knows<\/p>\n<p>Why do they fall prey anyway?<\/p>\n<p>What difference does it make to pigeons<\/p>\n<p>what colour the door of their prison is!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Living in pigeon holes boxed in with closed doors Restricted, obstructed, constricted views Brightly painted doors for happy beginnings Cities that lure with their fake promises playing with real lives Too hungry to refuse, they play along with a hope Someday, that door&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3065,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2293,4400,4196,680],"class_list":["post-92894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-hour7","tag-imageprompt","tag-manoshibose","tag-poetrymarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92894","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\/3065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92894"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104501,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92894\/revisions\/104501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}