{"id":3796,"date":"2014-09-04T16:27:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T22:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/?p=3796"},"modified":"2014-09-04T16:27:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T22:27:40","slug":"i-hate-thunderstorms-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/04\/i-hate-thunderstorms-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hate Thunderstorms!!! A Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I Hate Thunderstorms\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GPMlc1xlS9w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I hate thunderstorms<br \/>\nBy Chongchen Saelee<\/p>\n<p>I hate thunderstorms<br \/>\na prelude to the snow<br \/>\nFor neither are guaranteed safe<br \/>\nBut a snowstorm doesn\u2019t come with thunder<br \/>\nor lightning for that matter<br \/>\nThe chaotic crashing sounds reminds me<br \/>\nof uncertainty, nature, the unknown<\/p>\n<p>That there is no God.<br \/>\nWe are surrounded by randomness.<br \/>\nThings we cannot control<br \/>\nOr should want to control.<br \/>\nBecause it would make us weak and cowardly<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve braved through the storms before<br \/>\nAnd we survived it. All of them.<br \/>\nAnd there is light at the end.<br \/>\nAnd nothing to fear.<br \/>\nAnd we march on again.<br \/>\nAnd we continue with our mundane lives.<\/p>\n<p>We task ourselves with goals not supreme.<br \/>\nTo keep ourselves occupied from the truth<br \/>\nThat eventually the storm will return<br \/>\nAnd all that security, hopes, and joy fade again<br \/>\nonly to remind us how human we are<br \/>\nthat we cannot control the storm<\/p>\n<p>We are afraid of storms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate thunderstorms By Chongchen Saelee I hate thunderstorms a prelude to the snow For neither are guaranteed safe But a snowstorm doesn\u2019t come with thunder or lightning for that matter The chaotic crashing sounds reminds me of uncertainty, nature, the unknown That there is no God. We are surrounded by randomness. Things we cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[138,1172,1634,2070,2607],"class_list":["post-3796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artistic","tag-america","tag-hate","tag-metaphor","tag-race","tag-thunderstorms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}