{"id":109163,"date":"2022-06-25T12:58:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=109163"},"modified":"2022-06-25T13:04:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:04:20","slug":"subbing-in-america-through-haiku-hour-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/subbing-in-america-through-haiku-hour-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Subbing in America through Haiku: Hour 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I march bravely into the unknown. The silent room slowly awakens. Gentle go the lights. The teacher&#8217;s words draw my eyes. A quick reverie amidst the sounds of squeaking sneakers and slamming lockers.<\/p>\n<p><em>tapping the window sharply<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>robin interrupts<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>wisps of fluffy clouds<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One-by-one the cacophony of voices bounces, slinks, shuffles, and skips in the room.<\/p>\n<p><em>announcing their arrival<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>their unique flight call<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>migrate together<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My cape catches the breeze from the rotating fan. I quiet the rising din and rise. They perch on the edge of their seats.<\/p>\n<p><em>snapping my phone it lingers<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>patch of bright faces<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>purple clover blooms<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I march bravely into the unknown. The silent room slowly awakens. Gentle go the lights. The teacher&#8217;s words draw my eyes. A quick reverie amidst the sounds of squeaking sneakers and slamming lockers. tapping the window sharply robin interrupts wisps of fluffy clouds One-by-one the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1411,897,5055,1214],"class_list":["post-109163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-birds","tag-haibun","tag-superhero","tag-teacher-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109163","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\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110026,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109163\/revisions\/110026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}