{"id":107983,"date":"2022-06-25T10:44:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107983"},"modified":"2022-06-25T10:44:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:44:24","slug":"the-time-it-is-against-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-time-it-is-against-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The Time, it is against Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Time, it is Against Us<\/p>\n<p>The time, it is against us.<br \/>\nHow the hour is getting late. Wait!<br \/>\nEasy, Charile&#8230; take you time and trust us,<\/p>\n<p>Tempt fate and find your mate,<br \/>\nif you use what you have wisely.<br \/>\nMinutes, like dog-years blindly<br \/>\nerasing each hour off the clock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvest your time wisely.\u201d they say.<br \/>\nTime flies when you are having fun this way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInto each life some rain must fall.\u201d<br \/>\nSurely, time is on my side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another hour, another year,<br \/>\ngoing in circles, have no fear.<br \/>\nAnother trip around the pond,<br \/>\nin search of soul mate for a song.<br \/>\nNever mind the one eyed toad,<br \/>\nstay in sight and off the road.<br \/>\nThe mighty Mayfly takes to flight,<\/p>\n<p>under the hosta and out of the light,<br \/>\nshe appeared to his delight. <\/p>\n<p>Hour Two, 10 am<br \/>\nThe Time, it is Against Us<br \/>\n(form Acrostic\/ Sonnet variation\/series 2 of 24)<br \/>\nCharlie the Mayfly.<\/p>\n<p>v.j.calone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Time, it is Against Us The time, it is against us. How the hour is getting late. Wait! Easy, Charile&#8230; take you time and trust us, Tempt fate and find your mate, if you use what you have wisely. Minutes, like dog-years blindly erasing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4646,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107983","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\/4646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108010,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107983\/revisions\/108010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}