{"id":120361,"date":"2022-06-26T04:29:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=120361"},"modified":"2022-06-26T04:29:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T08:29:32","slug":"mr-beethoven-i-ode-you-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/mr-beethoven-i-ode-you-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Beethoven, I ode you one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLove is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.\u201d \u2013 Yogi Berra<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>O friends, please more of these sounds!<br \/>\nLet us shout more joyful cheers,<br \/>\nMore cheers full of joy!<br \/>\nJoy!<br \/>\nJoy!<br \/>\nJoy, bright spark of these nine innings<br \/>\nDenizens of the baseball field!<br \/>\nTeam-inspired we tread<br \/>\nWithin thy white-lined diamond.<br \/>\nBaseball\u2019s power re-unites<br \/>\nAll that losing has divided,<br \/>\nAll fans become brothers,<br \/>\nUnder the sway of thy gentle swings.<br \/>\nWhoever has created<br \/>\nAn abiding friendship<br \/>\nOr has won<br \/>\nAn afternoon alone at a baseball game<\/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>\u201cLove is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.\u201d \u2013 Yogi Berra O friends, please more of these sounds! Let us shout more joyful cheers, More cheers full of joy! Joy! Joy! Joy, bright spark of these nine innings&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441,1],"tags":[5565,5491,5566],"class_list":["post-120361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-uncategorized","tag-2022hour18joy","tag-2022-hour-18","tag-2022-prompt-18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120361","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=120361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120373,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120361\/revisions\/120373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}