{"id":106650,"date":"2022-06-25T09:39:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=106650"},"modified":"2022-06-26T11:44:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T15:44:47","slug":"nine-oclock-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/nine-oclock-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine O&#8217;Clock AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre id=\"block-cf0496a6-e827-49fa-80c2-3bae212227a4\" class=\"block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block has-medium-font-size is-selected wp-block-verse rich-text\" role=\"document\" aria-label=\"Block: Verse\" data-block=\"cf0496a6-e827-49fa-80c2-3bae212227a4\" data-type=\"core\/verse\" data-title=\"Verse\">I open the front door.<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>The air is already hot, humid, <br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>close. A watery sun barely makes<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>patches of light on the green<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>trees overhead before it's \r\ngone.<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>In a fallen brown magnolia leaf\r\nA few drops of rain have puddled. A<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>damp patch outside the door and the<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/><em>black car stops in front of the house and<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>drops a young man off. He opens the garage door\r\nacross the street and sits\r\n<\/em><em>waiting.<\/em><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/><br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>faint memory of a crash of thunder<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>in the middle of the night are all<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\" \/>there is to show that it rained.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I open the front door.The air is already hot, humid, close. A watery sun barely makespatches of light on the greentrees overhead before it&#8217;s gone.In a fallen brown magnolia leaf A few drops of rain have puddled. Adamp patch outside the door and theblack car&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106650","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\/1210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106650"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123301,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106650\/revisions\/123301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}