{"id":109186,"date":"2022-06-25T12:14:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=109186"},"modified":"2022-06-25T12:14:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:14:52","slug":"2022-poetry-marathon-hour-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/2022-poetry-marathon-hour-4\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Poetry Marathon, Hour 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the hour four <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/the-poetry-marathon-prompts\/prompts-for-fourth-hour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prompts<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Now<br \/>\nmusic is the sound<br \/>\nof a light breeze<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">of dry leaves<br \/>\ncrackling as they tumble<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">of the wood<br \/>\nof the abandoned piano<br \/>\nas it warps<br \/>\nand another of its strings snaps<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">of the whistling<br \/>\nfrom the thinnest of gaps<br \/>\nbetween the bones<br \/>\nof the dead composer<br \/>\nwho slept<br \/>\nuntil sleep could no more<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">of the footsteps<br \/>\nof curious creatures<br \/>\nwho stop and sniff<br \/>\nand then move on<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Now<br \/>\nmusic is the sound<br \/>\nof quiet<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>9:13, 25 June 2022<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the hour four prompts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":793,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4880,1407,1163],"class_list":["post-109186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2022-poetry-marathon","tag-hour-four","tag-kevin-j-oconner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109186","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\/793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109359,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109186\/revisions\/109359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}