{"id":110524,"date":"2022-06-25T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=110524"},"modified":"2022-06-25T14:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:00:41","slug":"hour-4-2022-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-4-2022-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 4 (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abandoned Piano<\/p>\n<p>Overgrown and off the path<br \/>\nsits an abandoned piano.<br \/>\nMy fingers trace<br \/>\nits splintered wood,<br \/>\nlacquer long since vanished<br \/>\nby time and the elements.<br \/>\nI brush off the leaves<br \/>\nand a few layers of dirt.<br \/>\nThe mouth of music smiles at me,<br \/>\npine needles stuck between<br \/>\nits ivory teeth.<br \/>\nI press a key, expecting silence,<br \/>\nbut the timbre bellows through the air,<br \/>\nscattering birds from their branches.<br \/>\nI feel the reverberation<br \/>\nbounce through my chest.<br \/>\nI wonder how long it&#8217;s been<br \/>\nsince this piano has felt<br \/>\nthe warmth of fingers.<br \/>\nEven in its abandonment,<br \/>\nit remembers how to play,<br \/>\nhow to create beauty in solitude.<br \/>\nAnd my heart can&#8217;t help<br \/>\nbut take note. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abandoned Piano Overgrown and off the path sits an abandoned piano. My fingers trace its splintered wood, lacquer long since vanished by time and the elements. I brush off the leaves and a few layers of dirt. The mouth of music smiles at me, pine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1382,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110524","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\/1382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110825,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110524\/revisions\/110825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}