{"id":121296,"date":"2022-06-26T06:17:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T10:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=121296"},"modified":"2022-06-29T10:34:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T14:34:51","slug":"hour-22-for-my-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-22-for-my-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 22 &#8211; For my Husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt Twenty-two \u2013 Use the word Tenderness as this hour\u2019s prompt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><u>For my Husband<\/u><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You tippy-toe into the room.<\/p>\n<p>Is it very late?<\/p>\n<p>Or very early?<\/p>\n<p>As today meets tomorrow<\/p>\n<p>Or is it yesterday meeting today?<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t say.<\/p>\n<p>Bleary-eyed with exhaustion<\/p>\n<p>I lie myself down on the sofa<\/p>\n<p>To catch seventeen minutes of sleep<\/p>\n<p>Before the alarm shrieks again.<\/p>\n<p>You tippy-toe in then,<\/p>\n<p>And thinking me asleep<\/p>\n<p>You pull the blanket up to my chin.<\/p>\n<p>And envelope me in your tenderness.<\/p>\n<p>And fuel the bleary out of my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know if you inspire me<\/p>\n<p>It is too early (or too late) for deep thinking.<\/p>\n<p>But I do know,<\/p>\n<p>I do what I do<\/p>\n<p>Because you believe I can.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As you wrap me in your tenderness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt Twenty-two \u2013 Use the word Tenderness as this hour\u2019s prompt. &nbsp; For my Husband &nbsp; You tippy-toe into the room. Is it very late? Or very early? As today meets tomorrow Or is it yesterday meeting today? I can\u2019t say. Bleary-eyed with exhaustion I&#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-121296","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\/121296","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=121296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124262,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121296\/revisions\/124262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}