{"id":128603,"date":"2023-09-02T11:33:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128603"},"modified":"2023-09-02T11:33:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:33:52","slug":"whistle-while-you-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/whistle-while-you-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistle While You Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whistle while you work.<\/p>\n<p>But I can&#8217;t whistle.<\/p>\n<p>My tongue won&#8217;t bend<\/p>\n<p>my lips won&#8217;t purse.<\/p>\n<p>Melodies, bird-like trills,<\/p>\n<p>like summer showers,<\/p>\n<p>never<\/p>\n<p>flow.<\/p>\n<p>My jaw is tight,<\/p>\n<p>my tongue is curled,<\/p>\n<p>and my lips exhausted.<\/p>\n<p>I am done<\/p>\n<p>and you, my son,<\/p>\n<p>just keep on whistling<\/p>\n<p>and laughing at me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whistle while you work. But I can&#8217;t whistle. My tongue won&#8217;t bend my lips won&#8217;t purse. Melodies, bird-like trills, like summer showers, never flow. My jaw is tight, my tongue is curled, and my lips exhausted. I am done and you, my son, just keep&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128603","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\/4299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129055,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128603\/revisions\/129055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}