{"id":99630,"date":"2021-06-27T02:25:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=99630"},"modified":"2021-06-27T08:29:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:29:28","slug":"a-world-before-me-hour-eighteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-world-before-me-hour-eighteen\/","title":{"rendered":"A World Before Me &#8211; Hour Eighteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see a world before me, filled with all the brightest hues<br \/>\nA far cry from the visions that are laid out on the news<br \/>\nA rock amid so many more, so large and yet so small<br \/>\nAnd yet, a place where goodness reins supremely over all<br \/>\nThe media, in all its worth, oft only tells the plight<br \/>\nThe goodness lost amid the fold of what is brought to light<br \/>\nStories created and not told, made up to skew the mind<br \/>\nOf those who cannot see the truth or to its power blind<br \/>\nOh yes, the world is ugly, our history is too<br \/>\nBut the future can be lovely, if we choose a brighter hue<br \/>\nThe world, so filled with darkness, cannot merely exist<br \/>\nUnless we feed to its grayness and allow it to persist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see a world before me, filled with all the brightest hues A far cry from the visions that are laid out on the news A rock amid so many more, so large and yet so small And yet, a place where goodness reins supremely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441],"tags":[4101,680,1806,3456,4652,4653],"class_list":["post-99630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2021poetrymarathon","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-jill-eisnaugle","tag-jill-halasz","tag-media-poems","tag-world-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99630","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99660,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99630\/revisions\/99660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}