{"id":97988,"date":"2021-06-26T21:31:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=97988"},"modified":"2021-06-26T21:31:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:31:53","slug":"i-accept-all-your-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/i-accept-all-your-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"I Accept All Your Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(for hour 13\u2014from the rainbow image prompt)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>I Accept All Your Promises<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of all those counted up like random lists petty humans try to track,<\/p>\n<p>how can I choose which pledge is most meaningful?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of more than three thousand spoken to assure believers, how can I choose which of your promises brings the peace that passes understanding?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Beauty is in the eye of the beholder\u2026<\/p>\n<p>and some may find the symbol placed over Noah\u2019s quitting the ark<\/p>\n<p>more beautiful than words can express\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yet to fulfill the promise of eternal life<\/p>\n<p>you allowed petty humans to hang your beautiful son on a cross.<\/p>\n<p>And that speaks more of love to me than a dozen oaths cloaked in vibrant refracted light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(for hour 13\u2014from the rainbow image prompt) &nbsp; I Accept All Your Promises &nbsp; Of all those counted up like random lists petty humans try to track, how can I choose which pledge is most meaningful? &nbsp; Of more than three thousand spoken to assure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[3019,859,4588],"class_list":["post-97988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-hour-13-prompt","tag-rainbow-image-prompt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97988","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\/1426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98006,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97988\/revisions\/98006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}