{"id":106546,"date":"2022-06-25T09:34:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=106546"},"modified":"2022-07-07T15:52:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T19:52:03","slug":"wiggly-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/wiggly-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiggly Thoughts (Hour #1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Pondering on how thoughts are thunk,\r\nmayhap they're up before the dawn,\r\ngiggling themselves silly as they rummage through a junk chest in the attic of our mind;\r\nTo an old drawing of the past they are drawn.\r\n\r\nThose little punks-\r\nsliding down the spiral staircase of contemplation,\r\nshaking and striking on gongs of self-doubt which rattles,\r\nwhooping as they jiggle and prance around bad decisions.\r\n\r\nArms full they carry huge chunks of heartbreaks...\r\nlittle reminders of that unfortunate morning with John,\r\nreenactment of how you yourself pulled the trigger to that gun,\r\nsympathy? Those thoughts seem to have none.\r\n\r\nJust when you seem to decide to get rid of them,\r\ngrab them by the neck to force them back to their bunk,\r\n<em>whoosh, <\/em>they're slipping out of your grip and slinking back into the coziness of the mind. \r\n\r\nNever pay them too much attention nor chase them about;\r\nYou can hear their subtle chuckles, \r\nfor them \u2014 it's fun.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pondering on how thoughts are thunk, mayhap they&#8217;re up before the dawn, giggling themselves silly as they rummage through a junk chest in the attic of our mind; To an old drawing of the past they are drawn. Those little punks- sliding down the spiral&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106546","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\/4008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106546"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124749,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106546\/revisions\/124749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}