{"id":127785,"date":"2023-09-02T10:36:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127785"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:36:08","slug":"not-yet-hour-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/not-yet-hour-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Yet (Hour Two)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I left my house too early.<\/p>\n<p>No other\u00a0 cars were in the drive.<\/p>\n<p>My fingers turned to ice,<\/p>\n<p>as my stomach churned inside.<\/p>\n<p>Too early, no one&#8217;s there.<\/p>\n<p>Around the block I go to think.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting new people in new place,<\/p>\n<p>Learning names and matching faces.<\/p>\n<p>Deep breath in and blow it out,<\/p>\n<p>whatever shall I do.<\/p>\n<p>A car pulls up and the driver appears,<\/p>\n<p>I can do this as person number two.<\/p>\n<p>Three more cars before I park.<\/p>\n<p>Six people with food and chairs.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t, not yet,<\/p>\n<p>away I go.<\/p>\n<p>They wave and I&#8217;m not there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I left my house too early. No other\u00a0 cars were in the drive. My fingers turned to ice, as my stomach churned inside. Too early, no one&#8217;s there. Around the block I go to think. Meeting new people in new place, Learning names and matching&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127785","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\/1030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128288,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127785\/revisions\/128288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}