{"id":119678,"date":"2022-06-26T03:32:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T07:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=119678"},"modified":"2022-07-01T19:56:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T23:56:24","slug":"2022-poetry-marathon-poem-19-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/2022-poetry-marathon-poem-19-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"The City (2022 Poem 19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of strangers hurry to and fro<br \/>\nWorking ten hour days<br \/>\nThen race to a broadway show<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t see when you&#8217;re in the maze<\/p>\n<p>Cars rev past before day break<br \/>\nSirens wail in dark of night<br \/>\nSubway trains make windows shake<br \/>\nCops are here to break up a fight<\/p>\n<p>The city is vibrant, it never sleeps<br \/>\nIt expands your view of humanity<br \/>\nWith poignancy to make you weep<br \/>\nFull of life and creativity <\/p>\n<p>(Prompt: There are so many nature poems out there. Our prompt for this hour of the night is to write a poem for a city, real or imagined.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of strangers hurry to and fro Working ten hour days Then race to a broadway show You can&#8217;t see when you&#8217;re in the maze Cars rev past before day break Sirens wail in dark of night Subway trains make windows shake Cops are here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1285,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4880],"class_list":["post-119678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2022-poetry-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119678","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\/1285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119678"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124430,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119678\/revisions\/124430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}