{"id":122756,"date":"2022-06-26T08:32:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T12:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=122756"},"modified":"2022-06-26T08:32:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T12:32:31","slug":"city-on-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/city-on-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"City on Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city went quiet<br \/>\nEveryone shut themselves away<br \/>\nFearing the virus<br \/>\nThat could possibly kill us<\/p>\n<p>For three weeks I didn\u2019t budge<br \/>\nSitting in my chair<br \/>\nWorking from home<br \/>\nDoing all the my employers asked<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I had to get out<br \/>\nIf for no other reason than to feel the breeze<br \/>\nI drove my car onto the streets<br \/>\nAnd put my windows down<\/p>\n<p>It felt like an alien world<br \/>\nSo many places closed<br \/>\nHardly anyone on once busy streets<br \/>\nMy radio was the loudest thing<\/p>\n<p>But I felt better<br \/>\nThe city, while sleeping, did still exist<br \/>\nHer citizens locked away for now<br \/>\nWould return when the time was right<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city went quiet Everyone shut themselves away Fearing the virus That could possibly kill us For three weeks I didn\u2019t budge Sitting in my chair Working from home Doing all the my employers asked Finally, I had to get out If for no other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"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-122756","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\/122756","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122762,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122756\/revisions\/122762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}