{"id":12149,"date":"2015-06-13T23:55:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T03:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12149"},"modified":"2015-06-13T23:55:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T03:55:39","slug":"ode-to-a-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/ode-to-a-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to a character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My book (movie) in my head never ends,<\/p>\n<p>so placing you in the leading role was<\/p>\n<p>easy; your wit and charm give others pause,<\/p>\n<p>but your chameleon ways help my plot blend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I laugh when people are taken a back<\/p>\n<p>by the many things you do to cause thought,<\/p>\n<p>as if they own you, not a movie, but<\/p>\n<p>the person wrapped up in plastic sack.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps its your swift smile, or boisterous laugh<\/p>\n<p>that make them forget the fiction of the tale<\/p>\n<p>told through digital, celluloid\u00a0 and stage;<\/p>\n<p>the person they create is real, full of life<\/p>\n<p>even if, like in my head, it&#8217;s a pale<\/p>\n<p>ghost in front of them, sitting on the page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My book (movie) in my head never ends, so placing you in the leading role was easy; your wit and charm give others pause, but your chameleon ways help my plot blend. &nbsp; I laugh when people are taken a back by the many things&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[905],"class_list":["post-12149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-forced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149","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\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12218,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12149\/revisions\/12218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}