{"id":98650,"date":"2021-06-26T22:48:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98650"},"modified":"2021-06-26T22:48:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:48:17","slug":"none-so-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/none-so-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"None So Blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>None So Blind<\/p>\n<p>You see him as a hero<br \/>\na role model to look up to<br \/>\nbut you refuse to see<br \/>\nthe mean side he tries to hide.<\/p>\n<p>You know he has a record<br \/>\nplead he deserves a second chance<br \/>\nbut you don\u2019t know that he\u2019s been<br \/>\nbehind bars many times before.<\/p>\n<p>Truth is the truth,<br \/>\nnot what you believe.<\/p>\n<p>You hear her gossip<br \/>\nabout a friend, and to look cool,<br \/>\nlike you belong, you join in,<br \/>\ncriticize the innocent.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t stop her or yourself;<br \/>\nslander slashes your friend,<br \/>\nand soon you\u2019re the subject<br \/>\nbeing snubbed.<\/p>\n<p>Truth is the truth,<br \/>\nnot what you believe.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to fools on the news<br \/>\nto radio jocks spouting crap<br \/>\nand if you follow like sheep<br \/>\nyou\u2019re doomed to fall into a pit.<\/p>\n<p>Believe everything you read<br \/>\nand you are in for a rough ride;<br \/>\ntrash rags are only good<br \/>\nto line the puppy\u2019s cage.<\/p>\n<p>Truth is the truth,<br \/>\nnot what you believe.<\/p>\n<p>Just because she is family<br \/>\ndoesn\u2019t mean she can\u2019t lie;<br \/>\nif your gut tells you not<br \/>\nto trust her words, then don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Blood may be thicker than water<br \/>\nbut greed and jealousy know<br \/>\nno bounds. Trust the truth,<br \/>\nstay safe, stay true to yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Truth is the truth,<br \/>\nnot what you believe.<\/p>\n<p>~ J R Turek<br \/>\nJune 26, 2021 Hour 14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>None So Blind You see him as a hero a role model to look up to but you refuse to see the mean side he tries to hide. You know he has a record plead he deserves a second chance but you don\u2019t know that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98650","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\/1325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98654,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98650\/revisions\/98654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}