{"id":12572,"date":"2015-06-14T01:34:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T05:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12572"},"modified":"2015-06-14T01:35:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T05:35:03","slug":"hour-17-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/hour-17-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hour 17<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s 7:25<\/p>\n<p>Nighttime on Maui<\/p>\n<p>Twelve hours ago we flipped off lights<\/p>\n<p>Now they are back on<\/p>\n<p>Cat is ready for his nightly jaunts<\/p>\n<p>My body craves sleep and normalcy<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember either<\/p>\n<p>Words struggle with me now<\/p>\n<p>Taunting me<\/p>\n<p>Hiding behind who I thought I was<\/p>\n<p>Crunch time<\/p>\n<p>This is when the marathon sizzles<\/p>\n<p>It wisps and quakes<\/p>\n<p>Shrivels us inside out<\/p>\n<p>I have been whipped by the sestina<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t remember my possessions<\/p>\n<p>And if my sister reads that poem<\/p>\n<p>It will be all over<\/p>\n<p>I am numb inside and out<\/p>\n<p>Coffee will be in my near future<\/p>\n<p>So will that bag of chips<\/p>\n<p>I promised to eat in small controlled amounts<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0forgotten soul in a worn out body<\/p>\n<p>I ignore my back pain<\/p>\n<p>I look to the end<\/p>\n<p>Hold to the present<\/p>\n<p>The past is just jumbled words<\/p>\n<p>Memory salad, word punch<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember who I used to be<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I never knew<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hour 17 It&#8217;s 7:25 Nighttime on Maui Twelve hours ago we flipped off lights Now they are back on Cat is ready for his nightly jaunts My body craves sleep and normalcy I don&#8217;t remember either Words struggle with me now Taunting me Hiding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12572","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12615,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12572\/revisions\/12615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}