{"id":145,"date":"1985-09-10T23:43:31","date_gmt":"1985-09-11T06:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:12:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:12:30","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1985\/09\/10\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What can people be &#8211;<br \/>\nWhen impromptu provocations<br \/>\nDirected and so dangerous,<br \/>\nDenounce unworldly wisdom<br \/>\nIn this, the material kingdom?<\/p>\n<p>What can family be &#8211;<br \/>\nWhen slanderous scorn and anger<br \/>\nWithin marriage born on paper<br \/>\nDoes infiltrate the lives<br \/>\nOf so-called husbands and wives?<\/p>\n<p>What can friendship mean &#8211;<br \/>\nWhen material and worldly gains<br \/>\nBetween seeming friends does reign,<br \/>\nAnd Selflessness is shunned aside<br \/>\nIn favor of futile earthly pride?<\/p>\n<p>What can humanity be &#8211;<br \/>\nWhen humiliating homage is given,<br \/>\nBy the wealthy ones who govern,<br \/>\nTo stagnant and starving subjects<br \/>\nWho&#8217;re less than political objects?<\/p>\n<p>What more can life be<br \/>\nThan a learning to live with love?<br \/>\nSo on Spirit&#8217;s egress to above<br \/>\nLove&#8217;s mastery will set them free<br \/>\nTo reign the planes of eternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can people be &#8211;<br \/> When impromptu provocations<br \/> Directed and so dangerous,<br \/> Denounce unworldly wisdom<br \/> In this, the material kingdom?<\/p>\n<p>What can family be &#8211;<br \/> When slanderous scorn and anger<br \/> Within marriage born on paper<br \/> Does infiltrate the lives<br \/> Of so-called husbands and wives?<\/p>\n<p>What can friendship mean &#8211;<br \/> When material [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical","category-poems","category-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}