{"id":120122,"date":"2022-06-26T04:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=120122"},"modified":"2022-06-27T12:58:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T16:58:38","slug":"city-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/city-life\/","title":{"rendered":"City life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you listen closely late at night<br \/>\nthe sounds of the city<br \/>\nbecome ever more clear<br \/>\ntraffic noise, road hum<br \/>\nsirens distant \u2013<br \/>\nand not so distant<br \/>\nsquealing tires &#8211;<br \/>\ncars racing<br \/>\ntoo-fast trucks<br \/>\npitter-patter of raccoon claws<br \/>\non alley concrete<br \/>\nsqueal of train wheels<br \/>\nscreeching hawks<br \/>\noccasional owls<br \/>\nunsteady footsteps of a<br \/>\nneighbor, returning<br \/>\nfrom some sort of revelry<br \/>\na kaleidoscope of<br \/>\naural enlightenment <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2022<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you listen closely late at night the sounds of the city become ever more clear traffic noise, road hum sirens distant \u2013 and not so distant squealing tires &#8211; cars racing too-fast trucks pitter-patter of raccoon claws on alley concrete squeal of train wheels&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,441,1],"tags":[5523,5554],"class_list":["post-120122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-uncategorized","tag-2022hour19","tag-2022prompt19cityatnight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120122","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123847,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120122\/revisions\/123847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}