{"id":9786,"date":"2015-06-13T16:38:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T20:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=9786"},"modified":"2015-06-13T16:38:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T20:38:44","slug":"9786","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/9786\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 8\/Poem 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We need a resolution<br \/>\nA solution to a continuing issue<br \/>\nthat has been plaguing this nation<br \/>\nMy people are dying needlessly<br \/>\nIn an endless war<br \/>\nA war considered by some to be obsolete<br \/>\nA war that has gotten much media attention<br \/>\nin days of late<br \/>\ndue to the actions of the police<br \/>\nKilling black men, unarmed or packing plastic<br \/>\npistols with orange tips, filled with BBs or metal<br \/>\npellets, non-lethal weapons being carried<br \/>\nin states with open carry laws<br \/>\nthat only benefit those who are not stigmatized<br \/>\nas being violent<br \/>\nWe need to have a conversation<br \/>\nA conversation to address the struggle<br \/>\nbetween hard earned money and poverty<br \/>\nbetween easy money and prosperity<br \/>\nWe need to unite as a country<br \/>\nas the melting pot we are<br \/>\nWe must stop the violence against my brothers, against my sisters, against<br \/>\nanyone we consider different<br \/>\nWe need to focus more on our similarities and less on our differences<br \/>\nWe need to accept one another as human first<br \/>\nIt is time&#8230;the time has come for change<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need a resolution A solution to a continuing issue that has been plaguing this nation My people are dying needlessly In an endless war A war considered by some to be obsolete A war that has gotten much media attention in days of late&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786","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\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9852,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9786\/revisions\/9852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}