{"id":110261,"date":"2022-06-25T13:23:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=110261"},"modified":"2022-06-29T11:56:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T15:56:17","slug":"hour-five-space-in-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-five-space-in-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Five &#8211; Space in the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/the-poetry-marathon-prompts\/prompts-for-the-fifth-hour\">Hour<\/a> Five \u2013 Write a poem using at least 5 of the following 10 words\/phrases.<\/h4>\n<p>Hardback, sunflower, knitting, cheddar cheese, space, wine glass, pavement, nail, oak, satchel<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>Their Space in the Sun<\/u><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I pause in my mundane cause to look out.<\/p>\n<p>Our neighbours, robust Scots in their eighties,<\/p>\n<p>had brought a picnic out onto the pavement.<\/p>\n<p>Possibly to catch the last rays of the day\u2019s sunshine.<\/p>\n<p>I could see her hand him cheddar \u2018n ham sandwiches<\/p>\n<p>before she went back to knitting booties for her fifth great grandchild.<\/p>\n<p>He handed her lemonade in a wineglass before bringing out his<\/p>\n<p>well-worn hardback Alistair MacLean from his better-worn satchel.<\/p>\n<p>Even as the leaves on the old oak swayed the other way<\/p>\n<p>to give them more space.<\/p>\n<p>Their space in the sun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour Five \u2013 Write a poem using at least 5 of the following 10 words\/phrases. Hardback, sunflower, knitting, cheddar cheese, space, wine glass, pavement, nail, oak, satchel &nbsp; Their Space in the Sun &nbsp; I pause in my mundane cause to look out. Our neighbours,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110261","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\/1430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124327,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110261\/revisions\/124327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}