{"id":286,"date":"2016-12-15T12:14:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T18:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=286"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:57:30","slug":"on-towards-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2016\/12\/15\/on-towards-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounds So Sillily Sad (and Naive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To Arms To Arms_cried generations now at rest.<br \/>\nFor death is seen as best,<br \/>\nrather than to succumb<br \/>\nas victims to the way &#8211; of the victors of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Clash of passions find<br \/>\neven families one against the other rant &#8211;<br \/>\nfor grand causes upon which all depends &#8211;<br \/>\nlong relationships upend.<\/p>\n<p>Yet passions come and go<br \/>\nand with each cycle wisdom notes what was witnessed.<br \/>\nAnd with that wisdom vote to see direction set &#8211;<br \/>\nharsh passions now forget.<\/p>\n<p>So all awoke and took<br \/>\nan early walk in air that\u2019s fresh in a peaceful breeze.<br \/>\nAll still free to debate another day &#8211;<br \/>\nwith new friends now to be made.<\/p>\n<p>(The Random Poet:120221<br \/>\nwww.therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Arms To Arms_cried generations now at rest. For death is seen as best, rather than to succumb as victims &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2016\/12\/15\/on-towards-tomorrow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sounds So Sillily Sad (and Naive)<\/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-286","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\/286","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=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}