{"id":121874,"date":"2022-06-26T07:21:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=121874"},"modified":"2022-06-26T07:21:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T11:21:53","slug":"hour-twenty-three-the-summer-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-twenty-three-the-summer-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Twenty-Three: The Summer Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Summer Book*<\/p>\n<p>Stretched out on chaise lounge<br \/>\nOr bunkbed, beach towel, porch swing<br \/>\nYou turn the pages.<br \/>\nQuickly at first<br \/>\nDelving in, devouring it<\/p>\n<p>But then you notice<br \/>\nOh, no!<br \/>\nThere isn\u2019t much of this wonderful story left!<br \/>\nHow can you live outside of such a fascinating world?<\/p>\n<p>So you try to read slower<br \/>\nSavoring the pages<br \/>\nRereading the best lines<br \/>\nOver and over<\/p>\n<p>But you can\u2019t help it<br \/>\nThe heroine is at peek crisis!<br \/>\nYou need to know what happens!<br \/>\nLike you need water, air<\/p>\n<p>And suddenly<br \/>\nThere it is<br \/>\nDone<\/p>\n<p>Now, whatever will you read for the rest of the summer?<\/p>\n<p>*Yes, that is really the title. It is by Tove Jansson, and it is a lovely summer read!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Summer Book* Stretched out on chaise lounge Or bunkbed, beach towel, porch swing You turn the pages. Quickly at first Delving in, devouring it But then you notice Oh, no! There isn\u2019t much of this wonderful story left! How can you live outside of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121874","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\/1047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121891,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121874\/revisions\/121891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}