{"id":101898,"date":"2021-06-27T06:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T10:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101898"},"modified":"2021-06-27T06:24:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T10:24:42","slug":"hour-21-ode-to-the-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-21-ode-to-the-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 21: Ode to the Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You began with the end<\/p>\n<p>When I was prepped and primed<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You carried me effortless<\/p>\n<p>Through your prompts<\/p>\n<p>Music and lyrics and images<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I burned the hours<\/p>\n<p>Breezing through barriers,<\/p>\n<p>Keeping time<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Until the half point<\/p>\n<p>When some would stop<\/p>\n<p>You shoved me through my second breath,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I fell into the arms of Morpheus,<\/p>\n<p>Left my determination with you,<\/p>\n<p>drowned in the River Lethe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Waking before sunrise,<\/p>\n<p>You showed me the finish dawning,<\/p>\n<p>A sliver of you lighting my way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do I have the juice to cross the line?<\/p>\n<p>Will you inspire me to burst out<\/p>\n<p>With a new beginning?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You began with the end When I was prepped and primed &nbsp; You carried me effortless Through your prompts Music and lyrics and images &nbsp; I burned the hours Breezing through barriers, Keeping time &nbsp; Until the half point When some would stop You shoved&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":853,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4101],"class_list":["post-101898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2021poetrymarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101898","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\/853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101928,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101898\/revisions\/101928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}