{"id":107933,"date":"2022-06-25T10:39:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107933"},"modified":"2022-06-25T10:46:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:46:14","slug":"hour-2-miles-to-go-after-robert-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-2-miles-to-go-after-robert-frost\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 2 : Miles to Go, after Robert Frost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Miles to Go<\/em>, after Robert Frost<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2 dead and 21 injured in a terrorist attack against a queer bar in Oslo.<\/p>\n<p>I find out in the middle of this poem and erase it entirely.<\/p>\n<p>2 dead and 21 injured in a terrorist attack against a queer bar in Oslo.<\/p>\n<p>I went to 3 Pride events in the last few weeks and I can\u2019t say<\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t<\/p>\n<p>looking for the closest exits,<\/p>\n<p>scanning the crowd,<\/p>\n<p>guarding the door with my anxiety<\/p>\n<p>cherishing my pounding heart.<\/p>\n<p>And when a cheeky kid threw a stone to my head<\/p>\n<p>during a march I can\u2019t say<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t think it was a hate crime<\/p>\n<p>before I realised it was just a game<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if it\u2019s normal to get a thrill from being alive<\/p>\n<p>with hundreds of other queers gathered in the same place<\/p>\n<p>from being a moving target,<\/p>\n<p>from getting home safely at the end of the day. I can\u2019t say<\/p>\n<p>That it\u2019s not tempting to lie down on the side of the road<\/p>\n<p>But I have promises to keep,<\/p>\n<p>And miles to go before I sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miles to Go, after Robert Frost 2 dead and 21 injured in a terrorist attack against a queer bar in Oslo. I find out in the middle of this poem and erase it entirely. 2 dead and 21 injured in a terrorist attack against a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2846,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107933","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\/2846"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107944,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107933\/revisions\/107944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}