{"id":111269,"date":"2022-06-25T14:39:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=111269"},"modified":"2022-06-26T02:09:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T06:09:18","slug":"6-a-letter-from-my-english-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/6-a-letter-from-my-english-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"6. A letter from my English teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Anwar, a letter in prose<\/p>\n<p>to you I do compose.<\/p>\n<p>By chance I stumbled across on Amazon,<\/p>\n<p>an anthology of a Poetry Marathon.<\/p>\n<p>In amazement,\u00a0 I did discover ,<\/p>\n<p>a poem, by yourself in between such cover.<\/p>\n<p>I am pleased to see<\/p>\n<p>that you have discovered a love for Poetry.<\/p>\n<p>However some rules you have discarded,<\/p>\n<p>which could make your poems retarded.<\/p>\n<p>Have I not taught you to use a simile,<\/p>\n<p>words that flow like the sea.<\/p>\n<p>Scratching of the pen on a paper<\/p>\n<p>is best described as an onomatopeia.<\/p>\n<p>Should you need more lessons<\/p>\n<p>Please do contact me<\/p>\n<p>And I will help you improve<\/p>\n<p>your Poetry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Anwar, a letter in prose to you I do compose. By chance I stumbled across on Amazon, an anthology of a Poetry Marathon. In amazement,\u00a0 I did discover , a poem, by yourself in between such cover. I am pleased to see that you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111269","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\/966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119277,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111269\/revisions\/119277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}