{"id":106621,"date":"2022-06-25T09:30:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=106621"},"modified":"2022-06-25T12:55:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:55:53","slug":"faucet-locks-in-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/faucet-locks-in-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Faucet Locks in Protest (hour 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There lay open the slate<\/p>\n<p>clean as a whistle<\/p>\n<p>and straight<\/p>\n<p>ready to drink some<\/p>\n<p>unchained thoughts<\/p>\n<p>and untrained words<\/p>\n<p>why do these nagging dogs<\/p>\n<p>visit during my me time<\/p>\n<p>and must it be during my shower time?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You would have thought it is not the slate<\/p>\n<p>as it comes as it would<\/p>\n<p>ready and dry as a wood<\/p>\n<p>its intensity creates immensity<\/p>\n<p>its press is a mess<\/p>\n<p>the faucet locks in protest<\/p>\n<p>not a drip anymore!<\/p>\n<p>must these thoughts visit during my me time?<\/p>\n<p>and in the bath?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The mind does not mind<\/p>\n<p>does not mind the place or time<\/p>\n<p>all it does is unleash itself<\/p>\n<p>wave of thoughts and thoughts and thoughts<\/p>\n<p>anywhere, everywhere, anyhow, any time<\/p>\n<p>until the faucet angrily opens up<\/p>\n<p>splashes water everywhere for my bath!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There lay open the slate clean as a whistle and straight ready to drink some unchained thoughts and untrained words why do these nagging dogs visit during my me time and must it be during my shower time? &nbsp; You would have thought it is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1355,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106621","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\/1355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109913,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106621\/revisions\/109913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}