{"id":1624,"date":"2023-09-05T14:27:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T19:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:27:31","slug":"thoughts-before-the-dawn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2023\/09\/05\/thoughts-before-the-dawn-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts Before the Dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you believe &#8211; fossil fuel is under assault?                    <br>or that law and order is passe? <br>Or perhaps &#8211; women&#8217;s rights are being ignored?                    <br>or security lacks at our southern border?                    <br>Do you believe &#8211; parental rights are being dismissed?             <br>or nonconforming opinions too diverse?                     <br>Do you believe &#8211; charter schools are under attack?                      <br>Is meritocracy too averse?                <br>Don&#8217;t you think &#8211; it awfully odd so much gone wrong?                     <br>If you don&#8217;t &#8211; it seems the chance is great,                     <br>that when something finally hits you close to home,              <br>your light will dawn and it&#8217;ll be too late.       <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(The Random Poet:02112023                      <br>www.therandompoet.com) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you believe &#8211; fossil fuel is under assault? or that law and order is passe? Or perhaps &#8211; women&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2023\/09\/05\/thoughts-before-the-dawn-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thoughts Before the Dawn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-verse-blank-verse-fractured-elizabethan","category-general-observations","category-pre-nov-5-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1909,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions\/1909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}