{"id":101878,"date":"2021-06-27T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T10:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101878"},"modified":"2021-06-27T06:26:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T10:26:00","slug":"hour-twenty-two-wake-up-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-twenty-two-wake-up-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Twenty-Two, Wake Up Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wake Up Call<\/p>\n<p>At age thirty-seven I returned to college<br \/>\nafter fifteen years away,<br \/>\nready to finally finish interrupted<br \/>\nbachelors&#8217; degrees from years before.<\/p>\n<p>I worked three jobs,<br \/>\nraised three kids,<br \/>\nattended three campuses,<br \/>\nand often got five hours of sleep or less,<br \/>\nat times getting no sleep at all,<br \/>\nyet still driving the hour to campus<br \/>\nand the hour home again.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen years after graduation,<br \/>\nI can barely finish the twenty-four hours<br \/>\nof this once a year marathon,<br \/>\nswaying in my seat,<br \/>\nbolting upright to my daughter&#8217;s phone alarm,<br \/>\nand micro-napping between eye-blinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wake Up Call At age thirty-seven I returned to college after fifteen years away, ready to finally finish interrupted bachelors&#8217; degrees from years before. I worked three jobs, raised three kids, attended three campuses, and often got five hours of sleep or less, at times&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101937,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101878\/revisions\/101937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}