{"id":107434,"date":"2022-06-25T10:55:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107434"},"modified":"2022-06-25T17:49:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:49:02","slug":"107434","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/107434\/","title":{"rendered":"Before I Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt 2: Read Robert Frost\u2019s poem<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/42891\/stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening\">\u00a0Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0chose one line or phrase, and with credit, write a poem with that line or phrase in it. Prompt partially contributed by Se Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before I Sleep<\/p>\n<p>~willjxn~<\/p>\n<p>Before I sleep I&#8217;ll make a list<\/p>\n<p>of things to do but to resist:<\/p>\n<p>The garden needs some flowering,<\/p>\n<p>The office needs un-towering.<\/p>\n<p>The kitchen sink needs dishes washed,<\/p>\n<p>The table needs the bread crumbs tossed.<\/p>\n<p>The toilet needs a good scrubbing<\/p>\n<p>My wife&#8217;s sore back\u2014 a soft rubbing,<\/p>\n<p>The book at hand needs me to read.<\/p>\n<p>Now add to this, I&#8217;ll write this screed.<\/p>\n<p>Dogs need their walking<\/p>\n<p>Granddaughters un-squawking<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve miles to go before my need,<\/p>\n<p>for good night&#8217;s sleep, my conscience heed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt 2: Read Robert Frost\u2019s poem\u00a0Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,\u00a0\u00a0chose one line or phrase, and with credit, write a poem with that line or phrase in it. Prompt partially contributed by Se Johnson. &nbsp; Before I Sleep ~willjxn~ Before I sleep I&#8217;ll make&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107434","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\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107434"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114022,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107434\/revisions\/114022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}