{"id":120311,"date":"2022-06-26T04:28:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=120311"},"modified":"2022-06-26T04:28:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:28:45","slug":"16-the-cello-and-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/16-the-cello-and-i\/","title":{"rendered":"16    The Cello and I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>16\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Cello and I<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I played the cello for a summer<\/p>\n<p>I lugged it all around<\/p>\n<p>Taking lessons from an expert<\/p>\n<p>I was lucky to have found<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Soon I noticed I was rotten<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t practice very far<\/p>\n<p>Instead I bought a ticket<\/p>\n<p>To see virtuoso YoYo Ma<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I felt bad for my instructor<\/p>\n<p>She really cared a lot<\/p>\n<p>And wanted all her students<\/p>\n<p>To become talents on the spot<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cello left undaunted<\/p>\n<p>Back to the rental shop it went<\/p>\n<p>Now I listen to the masters play<\/p>\n<p>Precious time well spent<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The Cello and I &nbsp; I played the cello for a summer I lugged it all around Taking lessons from an expert I was lucky to have found &nbsp; Soon I noticed I was rotten I didn&#8217;t practice very far Instead I bought&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120311","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\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120368,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120311\/revisions\/120368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}