{"id":121647,"date":"2022-06-26T07:23:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=121647"},"modified":"2022-06-26T07:31:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:31:29","slug":"the-stand-hour-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-stand-hour-23\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stand (hour 23)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stand, but not upright, uptight<\/p>\n<p>letting fatigue drag me where it may<\/p>\n<p>leaning against structures at night<\/p>\n<p>spewing words, streaming plays<\/p>\n<p>off the page, it makes no sense<\/p>\n<p>over cobblestones, under a fence<\/p>\n<p>how could I let them get away?<\/p>\n<p>demand them return,<\/p>\n<p>but stubborn, they stay<\/p>\n<p>too exhausted to will them back<\/p>\n<p>they frolic and tease me, slip in cracks<\/p>\n<p>confusion blocks my only stand<\/p>\n<p>my body buckling with sleep\u2019s frond<\/p>\n<p>waves will away, like a wand<\/p>\n<p>but then, I cry, \u2018please do return<\/p>\n<p>so you may help my poem burn!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>listening then, my words now stand<\/p>\n<p>back on the paper<\/p>\n<p>clutched firm in my hand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Sandra Johnson, June 26, 2022<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stand, but not upright, uptight letting fatigue drag me where it may leaning against structures at night spewing words, streaming plays off the page, it makes no sense over cobblestones, under a fence how could I let them get away? demand them return, but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121647","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\/1299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121647"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122011,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121647\/revisions\/122011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}