{"id":109814,"date":"2022-06-25T12:55:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=109814"},"modified":"2022-06-25T12:55:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T16:55:42","slug":"prompt-four-mannequin-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/prompt-four-mannequin-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt Four: Mannequin Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a mannequin
\nat the old piano in the woods between
\nyour house and Jenny Finnegan\u2019s
\nand it\u2019s warped and ruined
\nand full of leaves<\/p>\n

But the naked
\nformer window model
\nwithout any legs to
\ncontrol the pedals of the
\nmangled upright:
\nthe soft
\nthe sostenuto
\nand sustain \u2013 all
\ndamper than they should be \u2013
\nknows no better, you say<\/p>\n

You\u2019re wrong, Jenny tells you,
\n\u2018Look at her,\u2019 she says,
\nall freckles and fascination.
\n\u2019She knows that
\nbroken things can still be beautiful,
\nshe knows it better than most.\u2019<\/p>\n

You think about that mannequin
\nwhen you can\u2019t sleep that night
\nmind all abuzz in
\nJenny Finnegan\u2019s wake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a mannequin at the old piano in the woods between your house and Jenny Finnegan\u2019s and it\u2019s warped and ruined and full of leaves But the naked former window model without any legs to control the pedals of the mangled upright: the soft the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4714,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109814","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\/4714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109911,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109814\/revisions\/109911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}