{"id":11563,"date":"2015-06-13T21:35:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T01:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=11563"},"modified":"2015-06-13T21:35:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T01:35:16","slug":"poem-11-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/poem-11-4\/","title":{"rendered":"poem #11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>even the opening chords were wrong<br \/>\nthose plaintive just awakened half diminished<br \/>\nscales \u00a0 \u00a0 flat in all the wrong places<\/p>\n<p>the day grew only more dischordant<br \/>\nas if the better players in the orchestra<br \/>\ndeserted me left only a tuba and a violin<\/p>\n<p>there once had been a melody<br \/>\na kind of score written on old paper<br \/>\nthe quarter notes black the half notes hollow<\/p>\n<p>but today the hours stumbled like beginning<br \/>\ndancers trying to keep time their minute feet<br \/>\nunskilled and all the music off-key<\/p>\n<p>so that the approaching darkness of night<br \/>\ncomes welcome even with the fear<br \/>\nof its attendant nightmares<\/p>\n<p>the atonal scale descends and the chords<br \/>\nbreak into arpeggios with spaces in togetherness<br \/>\nthere will be music once again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>even the opening chords were wrong those plaintive just awakened half diminished scales \u00a0 \u00a0 flat in all the wrong places the day grew only more dischordant as if the better players in the orchestra deserted me left only a tuba and a violin there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11563","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11601,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11563\/revisions\/11601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}