{"id":111034,"date":"2022-06-25T14:15:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=111034"},"modified":"2022-06-25T14:15:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:15:42","slug":"prompt-6-iwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/prompt-6-iwatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 6: iWatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, you there,<\/p>\n<p>wanna buy a watch?<\/p>\n<p>I heard him hiss<\/p>\n<p>from the shadow<\/p>\n<p>of the alleyway.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shady character.<\/p>\n<p>Just keep walking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hey, you heard me.<\/p>\n<p>As he pulled<\/p>\n<p>the coat sleeve<\/p>\n<p>up his arm<\/p>\n<p>to reveal an iWatch,<\/p>\n<p>its video mode engaged.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I tried to look away,<\/p>\n<p>but it was too late\u2026<\/p>\n<p>There I was,<\/p>\n<p>a kid, fishing,<\/p>\n<p>dreaming dreams,<\/p>\n<p>making wishes<\/p>\n<p>on a four-leaf clover,<\/p>\n<p>watching clouds roll by,<\/p>\n<p>knowing in my heart<\/p>\n<p>where each one was going.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then it stopped.<\/p>\n<p>He rolled down the sleeve<\/p>\n<p>and walked away.<\/p>\n<p>Whistling.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And I stood there,<\/p>\n<p>alone in the dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, you there, wanna buy a watch? I heard him hiss from the shadow of the alleyway. &nbsp; Shady character. Just keep walking. &nbsp; Hey, you heard me. As he pulled the coat sleeve up his arm to reveal an iWatch, its video mode engaged&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111034","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\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111053,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111034\/revisions\/111053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}