{"id":129046,"date":"2023-09-02T11:34:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129046"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:11:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:11:38","slug":"the-promise-of-a-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-promise-of-a-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour #3: The Promise of a Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I promise I will give you the moon on a stick<\/p>\n<p>if you quit saying Jesus Christ, Fuck\u2019s sake!<\/p>\n<p>if your dirty clothes land in the hamper,<\/p>\n<p>if you turn off cell phone at meals,<\/p>\n<p>if you quit sleeping all day,<\/p>\n<p>if you comb your hair,<\/p>\n<p>if you get a job!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I promise to give myself the moon on a stick<\/p>\n<p>if I quit my constant eating day in and out,<\/p>\n<p>if I stop obsessing at 1 in the morning,<\/p>\n<p>if I halt mooning around the house,<\/p>\n<p>if I annul my habit of put downs,<\/p>\n<p>if I give up consuming meat,<\/p>\n<p>if I declutter the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I promise I will give you the moon on a stick if you quit saying Jesus Christ, Fuck\u2019s sake! if your dirty clothes land in the hamper, if you turn off cell phone at meals, if you quit sleeping all day, if you comb your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-129046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-moon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129046","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\/1134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129046"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136609,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129046\/revisions\/136609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}