{"id":113991,"date":"2022-06-25T17:49:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113991"},"modified":"2022-06-25T18:06:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:06:28","slug":"prompt-nine-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/prompt-nine-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Prize in Every Box<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Popcorn in the cupboard prompts<br \/>\na cascade of childhood memories\u2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">the boxes of \u2018Cracker Jack\u2019; once-a-<br \/>\nweek-treats, with a treasure in every box.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sunday brunch at The Owl\u2019s Nest,<br \/>\ndressing in fine clothes, carrying<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">a purse with a gold strap and wearing<br \/>\nfreshly polished Buster Brown shoes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Acting like a grown-up until the server<br \/>\ninvites me to check out the hidden<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">treasure box filled with trinkets and toys<br \/>\nand I don my childhood antics, once again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The wonder and joy of not knowing<br \/>\nwhat one will find on opening the lid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Though the clock now ticks time away,<br \/>\nmaybe we all need to pause: to be<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">curious again, to be surprised\u2014<br \/>\nto look for buried treasure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A Prize in Every Box Popcorn in the cupboard prompts a cascade of childhood memories\u2014 the boxes of \u2018Cracker Jack\u2019; once-a- week-treats, with a treasure in every box. Sunday brunch at The Owl\u2019s Nest, dressing in fine clothes, carrying a purse with a gold&#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-113991","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\/113991","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=113991"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114248,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113991\/revisions\/114248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}