{"id":93204,"date":"2021-06-26T15:41:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=93204"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:41:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:41:08","slug":"hour-7-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-7-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 7 &#8211; Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I will never understand why<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2018Normal\u2019 is the gold standard. We were\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not born to live the same lives as everyone else and\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then die with nothing unique to show for it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Give me loud, bright hair,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tattoos of pure art that cover your skin,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Laughter too boisterous for the atmosphere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Give me your weird dances, ugly faces,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Raw emotion and guttural pain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I want to see it all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To be human is to be different.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If that wasn\u2019t the case why aren\u2019t\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We just clones of each other, robots\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead of free-will-driven people?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why should we try to change that?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will never understand why \u2018Normal\u2019 is the gold standard. We were\u00a0 Not born to live the same lives as everyone else and\u00a0 Then die with nothing unique to show for it.\u00a0 &nbsp; Give me loud, bright hair, Tattoos of pure art that cover your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93204","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\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93213,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93204\/revisions\/93213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}