{"id":94644,"date":"2021-06-26T17:24:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94644"},"modified":"2021-06-26T17:37:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:37:30","slug":"actions-speak-louder-than-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/actions-speak-louder-than-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Actions Speak Louder Than Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have become a nation of words.<br \/>\nSocial media is godlike,<br \/>\nthe fountain of faith and information.<\/p>\n<p>We proclaim, \u201cI am \u2026\u201d<br \/>\nadding whatever suits us at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our words echo loudly<br \/>\non the silence of a screen,<br \/>\nhurting others, challenging others, defaming others.<\/p>\n<p>We create personas on a keyboard,<br \/>\nbelieving what we type.<\/p>\n<p>Buried somewhere in that verbiage<br \/>\nis on old, forgotten axiom:<\/p>\n<p><em>Actions speak louder than words.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And we continue our screen-for-all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have become a nation of words. Social media is godlike, the fountain of faith and information. We proclaim, \u201cI am \u2026\u201d adding whatever suits us at the moment. \u201cI am \u2026\u201d \u201cI believe \u2026\u201d \u201cI know \u2026\u201d \u201cI hate \u2026\u201d Our words echo loudly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94644","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\/1145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94692,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94644\/revisions\/94692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}