{"id":12861,"date":"2015-06-14T02:50:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T06:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12861"},"modified":"2015-06-14T22:38:42","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T02:38:42","slug":"once-a-man-twice-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/once-a-man-twice-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"ONCE A MAN TWICE A CHILD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUR SEVENTEEN<\/p>\n<p>POEM # 17<\/p>\n<p>24 HOUR<\/p>\n<p>POEM MARATHON<\/p>\n<p>ONCE A MAN TWICE A CHILD<\/p>\n<p>I learned to walk,<\/p>\n<p>Before I could talk.<\/p>\n<p>Easy to use fork and spoon,<\/p>\n<p>Cow jumped over the moon.<\/p>\n<p>Tied my shoes, button my shirt,<\/p>\n<p>Played in the sand and dirt.<\/p>\n<p>Taught to read and to spell.<\/p>\n<p>Bounced back when I fell.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty years boy, now a man,<\/p>\n<p>Will fate come with a plan?<\/p>\n<p>Fifty years man, now a boy.<\/p>\n<p>Will fate bring a different toy?<\/p>\n<p>Hard to read and to spell,<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts don&#8217;t seem to jell.<\/p>\n<p>Slip on shoes, slip on shirt,<\/p>\n<p>Trying so hard to stay alert.<\/p>\n<p>I eat with straw and spoon,<\/p>\n<p>Sit and stare the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Need a cane when I walk,<\/p>\n<p>Words garbled when I talk.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Carl Mann<\/p>\n<p>The kurlman<\/p>\n<p>6-14-2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUR SEVENTEEN POEM # 17 24 HOUR POEM MARATHON ONCE A MAN TWICE A CHILD I learned to walk, Before I could talk. Easy to use fork and spoon, Cow jumped over the moon. Tied my shoes, button my shirt, Played in the sand and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12861","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\/338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14997,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12861\/revisions\/14997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}