{"id":120225,"date":"2022-06-26T04:12:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=120225"},"modified":"2022-06-29T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T15:25:00","slug":"hour-20-beginners-book-of-poetry-prompts-chapter-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-20-beginners-book-of-poetry-prompts-chapter-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 20 &#8211; Beginners Book of Poetry Prompts \u2013 Chapter One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hour Twenty \u2013 Write a poem using\u00a0any one of the following titles:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Watchtower, Second Breakfast, Books for Beginners, The Woman with the Top Hat, Echo Husband<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><u>Beginners Book of Poetry Prompts \u2013 Chapter One<\/u><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get yourself a nice hot drink. (Tea works best for me but wine is fine).<\/li>\n<li>Head to the shelf where you keep old photo albums.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s okay to get distracted by the last piece of cake enroute.<\/li>\n<li>Place said cake by the tea, by the chair. You will return.<\/li>\n<li>Ignore the dust on the albums, pick the one at the bottom of the pile.<\/li>\n<li>Now you can clean it with your sleeve.<\/li>\n<li>Do not open. Yet.<\/li>\n<li>Return to chair, cake, tea (or coffee\/beer\/wine).<\/li>\n<li>Look at album on your knee for three minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Do not open. Yet.<\/li>\n<li>Remember albums, print shops, films, cartridges.<\/li>\n<li>Do not open. Yet.<\/li>\n<li>Remember fathers writing dates and captions on black paper with white ink.<\/li>\n<li>Wipe errant tear (optional).<\/li>\n<li>Have a bite of cake, a sip of drink.<\/li>\n<li>Exhale. Sigh with comfort.<\/li>\n<li>Now open album.<\/li>\n<li>Rewind fifty years.<\/li>\n<li>Much later. Write verse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour Twenty \u2013 Write a poem using\u00a0any one of the following titles: The Watchtower, Second Breakfast, Books for Beginners, The Woman with the Top Hat, Echo Husband \u00a0 \u00a0Beginners Book of Poetry Prompts \u2013 Chapter One \u00a0 Get yourself a nice hot drink. (Tea works&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120225","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\/1430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120225"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124290,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120225\/revisions\/124290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}