{"id":2539,"date":"2025-12-13T18:07:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T18:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/?p=2539"},"modified":"2026-01-02T16:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:10:44","slug":"writing-challenge-2025-16-the-sword-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/13\/writing-challenge-2025-16-the-sword-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Challenge 2025 \u2013 16 &#8211; The Sword (Poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\r\n<i>This was written December 13th, 2025<\/i>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2>The Sword<\/h2>\r\n<p>\r\nThere,<br \/>\r\nThe heir,<br \/>\r\nOf this tale,<br \/>\r\nHe did regale.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\nThere once was a sword,<br \/>\r\nForged long ago by Lord,<br \/>\r\nWhom Peace and Logic would preach,<br \/>\r\nAnd all of us he tried to reach.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\nFirst sword humanity had witnessed,<br \/>\r\nPurpose: A simple tool he confessed,<br \/>\r\nNaive he was; ignored our brutality,<br \/>\r\nCreatively repurposed for finality.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\nBloodshed ensued; destruction raged; Lord realized,<br \/>\r\nError was his; should have seen yet just surprised,<br \/>\r\nCorruption of such well-meaning intent,<br \/>\r\nDisgust unbound he fled to repent.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\nWhat now to do he did know not,<br \/>\r\nInsides twisted all in knot,<br \/>\r\nBox of Pandora&#8217;s bare?<br \/>\r\nHe could not bear.\r\n<\/p><p>\r\nAshamed at last,<br \/>\r\nPlus aghast,<br \/>\r\nHe bled,<br \/>\r\nRed.\r\n<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was written December 13th, 2025 The Sword There, The heir, Of this tale, He did regale. There once was a sword, Forged long ago by Lord, Whom Peace and Logic would preach, And all of us he tried to reach. First sword humanity had witnessed, Purpose: A simple tool he confessed, Naive he was; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/13\/writing-challenge-2025-16-the-sword-poem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writing Challenge 2025 \u2013 16 &#8211; The Sword (Poem)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2664,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions\/2664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}