{"id":10314,"date":"2015-06-13T17:58:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T21:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=10314"},"modified":"2015-06-13T17:59:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T21:59:10","slug":"a-poem-about-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/a-poem-about-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem about Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I should have been composing poems,<br \/>\nor at least thinking about them,<br \/>\nI folded laundry<br \/>\nhad a snack, and<br \/>\ndid the lunch dishes<br \/>\nthat had been taunting me<br \/>\nfor the past three hours.<\/p>\n<p>Life gets in the way of art,<br \/>\neven on those days when<br \/>\nI\u2019ve committed myself to art.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s no art without living.<br \/>\nWriters who lock themselves away in the garret,<br \/>\neven metaphorically,<br \/>\nhave nothing about which to write.<\/p>\n<p>But laundry?  That\u2019s what I get?<br \/>\nNot even dirty laundry,<br \/>\nnot that I care to air that<br \/>\neven for art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I should have been composing poems, or at least thinking about them, I folded laundry had a snack, and did the lunch dishes that had been taunting me for the past three hours. Life gets in the way of art, even on those days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10314","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\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10320,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10314\/revisions\/10320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}