{"id":109224,"date":"2022-06-25T12:55:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=109224"},"modified":"2022-06-25T13:00:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:00:45","slug":"prompt-3-harried-prologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/prompt-3-harried-prologue\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 4, Harried Prologue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-109382\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Teapot_Rock_postcard_crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"134\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Have you seen <em>John Cazale&#8217;s Wyoming<\/em>,<br \/>\na play about a scandal that would presage the rest of the 20th<br \/>\nand, thus far, most of the 21st century&#8217;s preoccupation<br \/>\nwith raping the land for greed?<\/p>\n<p>We have a minute before the show starts,<br \/>\nand need to make room for the actor<br \/>\nplaying Albert B. Fall to find his<br \/>\nseat in the house.<\/p>\n<p>No one who props &#8220;gate&#8221; next to a news story<br \/>\nto indicate malfeasance, proven or not,<br \/>\never uses &#8220;dome,&#8221; but why not?<br \/>\nThe past is just the alpha present.<br \/>\nIt was our predecessors workshopping the outlines<br \/>\nwe&#8217;d use later on unheard-of platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Did soda jerks know<br \/>\ntheir moneymaker would be the<br \/>\nmeme of their day<br \/>\nif there were memes in 1922?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Have you seen John Cazale&#8217;s Wyoming, a play about a scandal that would presage the rest of the 20th and, thus far, most of the 21st century&#8217;s preoccupation with raping the land for greed? We have a minute before the show starts, and need&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109224","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109976,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109224\/revisions\/109976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}