{"id":127262,"date":"2023-09-02T09:35:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127262"},"modified":"2023-09-02T09:35:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:35:45","slug":"one-thats-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/one-thats-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"one: That&#8217;s Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s Sports<\/p>\n<p>Just before the last cliche-laden interview<br \/>\nBefore tens of thousands left the arena<br \/>\nas the winning score sends them ecstatic and broke into the evening<br \/>\nBefore great and televised struggle of elite athletes and millionaire buddies<br \/>\nBefore the bad call by the bad ref<br \/>\nBefore the haaaalftiiiiiime shhhoowwww\u2026<br \/>\nBefore the pain and sweat<br \/>\nBefore the drop, the jump, the kick, the green flag for aaalll of those pretty zeros on the contract<br \/>\nWith franchise<br \/>\nWith broadcast network<br \/>\nWith corporate interest<br \/>\nWith city and state<br \/>\n\u2026Was an eternity of laughter and yelp<br \/>\nfrom parkway to playground<br \/>\ngym class to basement<br \/>\ndrive way or alley<br \/>\nWhere every single day was a gold medal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s Sports Just before the last cliche-laden interview Before tens of thousands left the arena as the winning score sends them ecstatic and broke into the evening Before great and televised struggle of elite athletes and millionaire buddies Before the bad call by the bad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1816,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127262","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\/1816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127271,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127262\/revisions\/127271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}