{"id":102553,"date":"2021-06-27T07:49:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=102553"},"modified":"2021-06-27T07:49:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T11:49:07","slug":"what-are-the-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/what-are-the-chances\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are the Chances?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(for hour 23\u2014a \u201chearing\u201d prompt from hour 16&#8230;coz cheese is good, but I wasn&#8217;t feeling it)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Are the Chances?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Amid a crowded amphitheater<\/p>\n<p>I become the only attendee<\/p>\n<p>The only fan<\/p>\n<p>For I close my eyes to the swell of the synthesizer<\/p>\n<p>Under the vibrato of violins on stage<\/p>\n<p>And gentle build of the snare<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere beneath the note he holds<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m lifted<\/p>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s his voice<\/p>\n<p>Or the pulse of the bass<\/p>\n<p>It carries me above any crowd sound<\/p>\n<p>All I know is the music<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m lost in the flow<\/p>\n<p>The harmony and tender rise<\/p>\n<p>Crescendo to rejoin a rhythm<\/p>\n<p>That pumps my blood<\/p>\n<p>To this new time signature<\/p>\n<p>This new motion<\/p>\n<p>Amid an airy amphitheater<\/p>\n<p>Of only me<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s left of me<\/p>\n<p>Filling with chords and melody<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(for hour 23\u2014a \u201chearing\u201d prompt from hour 16&#8230;coz cheese is good, but I wasn&#8217;t feeling it) &nbsp; What Are the Chances? &nbsp; Amid a crowded amphitheater I become the only attendee The only fan For I close my eyes to the swell of the synthesizer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[3019,273,284],"class_list":["post-102553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-hour-23","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102553","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\/1426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102567,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102553\/revisions\/102567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}