{"id":109608,"date":"2022-06-25T12:38:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=109608"},"modified":"2022-06-25T13:21:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:21:11","slug":"when-the-words-fizzle-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/when-the-words-fizzle-out\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Words Fizzle Out (Hour 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The muse wages war<br \/>\nagainst my words,<br \/>\nto rattle them,<br \/>\neject them,<br \/>\nand lay them bare.<\/p>\n<p>The war rages on,<br \/>\nto shoot my words<br \/>\ninto the air,<br \/>\nenabling a scattering effect<br \/>\nthat&#8217;d make my control slip.<\/p>\n<p>With its full weight<br \/>\nupon my restraints,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll let the words go,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll lose this love of them,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll let them be shot,<br \/>\nsown in centenarian soils,<br \/>\nto be harvested again and again,<br \/>\na hundred years and more<br \/>\nfrom all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The muse wages war against my words, to rattle them, eject them, and lay them bare. The war rages on, to shoot my words into the air, enabling a scattering effect that&#8217;d make my control slip. With its full weight upon my restraints, I&#8217;ll let&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1389,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109608","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\/1389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110249,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109608\/revisions\/110249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}