{"id":12518,"date":"2015-06-14T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T04:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12518"},"modified":"2015-06-14T01:13:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T05:13:43","slug":"my-last-poem-for-the-half-marathon-the-twelve-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/my-last-poem-for-the-half-marathon-the-twelve-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"My last poem for the half marathon&#8211;THE TWELVE HOURS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE TWELVE HOURS<\/p>\n<p>When at the eleventh hour,<br \/>\nThe final whistle travels by the air.<br \/>\nThe workaholics stand to the podium!<\/p>\n<p>The podium becomes a pinnacle<br \/>\nFor the survivors<br \/>\nOnce my eyes stuck on the screen<br \/>\nAs I laid beside the rippling river to the east<\/p>\n<p>Silently I gazed in the sky<br \/>\nFor I sat on countless hours<br \/>\nThat the clock may chime one o&#8217;clock!<\/p>\n<p>Leaves wobbling through the woods<br \/>\nThat they might fall on my forehead<br \/>\nAs I finally opened the gifted casket<br \/>\nThen I recap a tone from a throne<br \/>\nThat to gain is to sacrifice<\/p>\n<p>The nightingale whispers<br \/>\nThrough the air into my ears<br \/>\nTelling me of a poetry marathon<\/p>\n<p>Yes! The twelve<br \/>\nAnd the twenty four hours journey!<br \/>\nA Journey I then chose<br \/>\nFrom the jingling of my veins!<br \/>\nThe Half marathon!<\/p>\n<p>(C)2015 All Rights Reserved<br \/>\nKofi Acquah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE TWELVE HOURS When at the eleventh hour, The final whistle travels by the air. The workaholics stand to the podium! The podium becomes a pinnacle For the survivors Once my eyes stuck on the screen As I laid beside the rippling river to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12518","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\/233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12542,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12518\/revisions\/12542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}