{"id":113269,"date":"2022-06-25T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113269"},"modified":"2022-06-26T14:45:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T18:45:23","slug":"prompt-eight-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/prompt-eight-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wishful Thinking<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Like Wordsworth and the Lake Poets<br \/>\nI wish to rusticate; leave the bustle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>and daily grind behind; the tiresome<br \/>\ncar alarms, the screaming children, the<br \/>\nmournful howls of the dog two doors down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I wish to sit in a bower, framed with gardenias<br \/>\nand listen to fox sparrows call to one another<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>from the hidden branches of blackberry bushes\u2014<br \/>\nwatch while bohemian waxwings get tipsy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>as summer wanes under September skies.<br \/>\nLike Wordsworth and the Lake Poets<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>I wish to sit in a bower, framed with gardenias<br \/>\nand lose myself in the quiet moments thinking<br \/>\nof how fortunate it is to have this treasured space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Then the phone rings and the clock ticks toward<br \/>\nthe supper hour and children need to be fed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Wishful Thinking Like Wordsworth and the Lake Poets I wish to rusticate; leave the bustle and daily grind behind; the tiresome car alarms, the screaming children, the mournful howls of the dog two doors down. I wish to sit in a bower, framed with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113269","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\/1004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113269"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123487,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113269\/revisions\/123487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}