{"id":107789,"date":"2022-06-25T10:45:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107789"},"modified":"2022-06-25T10:45:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:45:10","slug":"poem-2-hour-2-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/poem-2-hour-2-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 2, hour 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 HE WILL NOT SEE ME STOPPING HERE.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">He will not see me stopping here<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">But then why should I care if he does?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">My life, my horse, my pace, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I wear the shoes, what if they pinch?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">What if my horse has caught a burr?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And all I can manage is limp by limp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">If life depends on the liver,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Don&#8217;t I have the right to choose my gait?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Does it matter if my speed is off?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">By the way, whose speedometer is counting the miles?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Still my life, my horse , my pace, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Well, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">If right,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Then I don&#8217;t care who sees me stopping where!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Credit: First line taken from line 3 stanza 1 of Robert Frost&#8217;s stopping by woods on a snowy evening.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 HE WILL NOT SEE ME STOPPING HERE. He will not see me stopping here But then why should I care if he does? My life, my horse, my pace, right? I wear the shoes, what if they pinch? What if my horse has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107789","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\/1526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108019,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107789\/revisions\/108019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}