{"id":95818,"date":"2021-06-26T19:11:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=95818"},"modified":"2021-06-27T01:31:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:31:07","slug":"10-a-rap-through-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/10-a-rap-through-the-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"10 A rap through the ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Obsolete are watches, clocks ,cameras and phones designed by Alex Graham Bell.<\/p>\n<p>All these replaced by a hand held cell.<\/p>\n<p>We, the aged yuppie<\/p>\n<p>make way for mellinials and Gen Zee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Remember when we had boom boxes blasting,<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s singing by tick toking<\/p>\n<p>and talking by musical rapping.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On demand channels, by You Tube, Netflix and Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>Previously TV programs were on less supply.<\/p>\n<p>Social media, a\u00a0 virtual means of communication.<\/p>\n<p>Whatsapp, we chat and texting, now the preferred means of conversation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What next, I dare to question ,<\/p>\n<p>from the prot\u00e9g\u00e9s of our next generation<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps time travel through the portals, reminiscent of &#8221; beam me up , Scottty&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Or even better, a regenerated, ageless me!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obsolete are watches, clocks ,cameras and phones designed by Alex Graham Bell. All these replaced by a hand held cell. We, the aged yuppie make way for mellinials and Gen Zee. &nbsp; Remember when we had boom boxes blasting, Now it&#8217;s singing by tick toking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95818","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\/966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99864,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95818\/revisions\/99864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}