{"id":98417,"date":"2021-06-26T22:19:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98417"},"modified":"2021-06-26T22:19:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:19:46","slug":"and-the-children-would-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/and-the-children-would-sing\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Children would Sing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I was thinking of the rainbow children added<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">to the old earth when the moon shines on them<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">somewhere under the citrus tree, singing of joy.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">They sing in a way similar to the old earth,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">when with a broken identity they chose to celebrate<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">the privilege of witnessing the fulfillment of prophecies.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Watching them teaches me the art of forgetfulness.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">How not holding unto the past is a blessing.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">And I learnt a new thing: sometimes, we are all it takes<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">for what was written to be fulfilled.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I was thinking of the rainbow children added to the old earth when the moon shines on them somewhere under the citrus tree, singing of joy. They sing in a way similar to the old earth, when with a broken identity they chose to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,2114,1136,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98417","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\/1398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98421,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98417\/revisions\/98421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}