{"id":107159,"date":"2022-06-25T09:51:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107159"},"modified":"2022-06-25T09:51:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:51:49","slug":"the-weight-of-the-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-weight-of-the-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"The weight of the baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a loneliness to the mound<br \/>\nwhen you start to loose your control<br \/>\nYour breaking ball that refused to break<br \/>\nnow sits five rows up in the stands<br \/>\nNow, all of a sudden you cannot throw a strike<br \/>\nhaving walked the next two batters<\/p>\n<p>The pitching coach has come and gone<br \/>\nreminding you to take a breath and refocus<br \/>\nYour infielders have grown quiet<br \/>\nthey know how important this at bat is<br \/>\nThe only sound you can hear<br \/>\nis your grunting as you throw each pitch<\/p>\n<p>This will be your last batter<br \/>\nyou can tell by the look on Skip\u2019s face<br \/>\nAnd by sheer force of will<br \/>\nthe first two pitches finds the strike zone<br \/>\nBreathing out slowly as you come set<br \/>\nyou go into your motion to get the third out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a loneliness to the mound when you start to loose your control Your breaking ball that refused to break now sits five rows up in the stands Now, all of a sudden you cannot throw a strike having walked the next two batters&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[4906,4880,4915,4937],"class_list":["post-107159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-2022fullmarathon","tag-2022-poetry-marathon","tag-2022-prompt-1","tag-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107159","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\/4175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107205,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107159\/revisions\/107205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}