{"id":112353,"date":"2022-06-25T16:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=112353"},"modified":"2022-06-25T16:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:00:50","slug":"7-the-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/7-the-bench\/","title":{"rendered":"7. THE BENCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many a persons had sat on that bench:<\/p>\n<p>The hungry on it did eat.<\/p>\n<p>The homeless on it had slept.<\/p>\n<p>The lovers on the back a heart did draw.<\/p>\n<p>The dog touched it with its paw.<\/p>\n<p>The tired on it did rest.<\/p>\n<p>Warriors from there plotted their quest.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployed sat and scanned the newspaper for vacancy.<\/p>\n<p>The police protected the bench from vagrancy.<\/p>\n<p>The aged reminisce of their lives spent<\/p>\n<p>The children on the bench , their friendships cement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each their own story so unique,<\/p>\n<p>But the bench remains there shrouded in its own mystique<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many a persons had sat on that bench: The hungry on it did eat. The homeless on it had slept. The lovers on the back a heart did draw. The dog touched it with its paw. The tired on it did rest. Warriors from there&#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-112353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112353","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=112353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112568,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112353\/revisions\/112568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}