{"id":102052,"date":"2021-06-27T06:41:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T10:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=102052"},"modified":"2021-06-27T06:42:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T10:42:08","slug":"102052","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/102052\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s at play?  (hour 14 prompt)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was on the road today<br \/>\ncity-to-city<br \/>\nwith ample time<br \/>\ndue to detours<br \/>\nand errands<br \/>\nspent driving<br \/>\nthrough<br \/>\n smaller, rural<br \/>\ncommunities as<br \/>\nwell as city and suburban<br \/>\nneighborhoods<\/p>\n<p>It is summer<br \/>\nthe weather good<br \/>\nleaving me<br \/>\npuzzled, in dismay<br \/>\npassing<br \/>\nwell-stocked parks<br \/>\nequipment filled<br \/>\nplaygrounds<br \/>\nbaseball diamonds and<br \/>\nsoccer fields galore<br \/>\nall devoid of<br \/>\ndenizens<\/p>\n<p>We do our children<br \/>\nour society<br \/>\na disservice by<br \/>\nallowing this disuse<br \/>\nnot in<br \/>\nsquandering our<br \/>\nresources<br \/>\nbut in not letting our<br \/>\nchildren<br \/>\nsquander their time<br \/>\nwithout putting these<br \/>\nresources<br \/>\nto use<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2021<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd  <\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on the road today city-to-city with ample time due to detours and errands spent driving through smaller, rural communities as well as city and suburban neighborhoods It is summer the weather good leaving me puzzled, in dismay passing well-stocked parks equipment filled playgrounds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4601,4722,1231],"class_list":["post-102052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2021hour14","tag-2021prompt14","tag-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102052","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102072,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102052\/revisions\/102072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}