{"id":9876,"date":"2015-06-13T17:36:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T21:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=9876"},"modified":"2015-06-15T17:44:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T21:44:29","slug":"hour-8-wish-fulfillment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/hour-8-wish-fulfillment\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 8 \u2014 Wish Fulfillment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Charter of Wish Fulfillment<\/em> called for a consensus<br \/>\nof people&#8217;s needs and wishes<br \/>\nIn order to better understand what we want<br \/>\nFrom life, from the government, from each other<\/p>\n<p>Every evening<br \/>\nAn elected spokesperson stands on a box in the townsquare<br \/>\nand reads out our collected needs for the day<br \/>\n<em>We need<\/em> aerosol dispensers for better distribution of fine particles<br \/>\n<em>We need<\/em> ergonomic\u00a0baby helmets to keep their brains safe and cozy<br \/>\n<em>We need<\/em> kevlar-reinforced sleeping bags for peaceful nights<\/p>\n<p>We stand around the spokesperson&#8217;s box<br \/>\nand nod our agreements<br \/>\n<em>We need<\/em> radiation-resistant, acid-repellant tarps\u00a0for schools<br \/>\nand daycare centres<br \/>\n<em>We need<\/em> more minimized-labor days annually<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAs darkness begins to fall, we return to our living quarters<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the dinner table we now keep<br \/>\nA pencil stub and an old\u00a0sheet of\u00a0paper<br \/>\nJust in case we remember some need we had missed before<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Charter of Wish Fulfillment called for a consensus of people&#8217;s needs and wishes In order to better understand what we want From life, from the government, from each other Every evening An elected spokesperson stands on a box in the townsquare and reads out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":648,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876","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\/648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9876"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15167,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9876\/revisions\/15167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}