{"id":129154,"date":"2023-09-02T12:03:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129154"},"modified":"2023-09-02T12:03:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:03:41","slug":"unfinished-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/unfinished-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfinished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meandering rivulets forming the stream of my consciousness<br \/>\nbelies the constraints of time<br \/>\n&#8220;Turn in your quiz!&#8221;<br \/>\nThe smooth feel of the purple printed paper<br \/>\nscented with the toxins<br \/>\nand addictive taste of the ditto copy machine,<br \/>\nclicking each paper that steals my time.<br \/>\nThe headiness of the scent linger, coating my sinuses as I breathe it into my lungs.<br \/>\nCarl T.Johnson is both a name and a place.<br \/>\nDid you know?<br \/>\nBreathe, I have as much time as there is time.<br \/>\nAn analog timekeeper is not a referee, is he?<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve got this, just use your superpower.<br \/>\nStand like you are using your superpower.<br \/>\nStand up.<br \/>\nStand.<br \/>\nThe sharp blade of the pen duals<br \/>\nThe silver embossed edging of the paper slices easily through the moonlight room<br \/>\nfloating under the writer as she hovers in concentration<br \/>\nBloody Ass closes her eyes<br \/>\ngathers wisps of knowledge and coherent thought<br \/>\nShe has finished within the time frame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meandering rivulets forming the stream of my consciousness belies the constraints of time &#8220;Turn in your quiz!&#8221; The smooth feel of the purple printed paper scented with the toxins and addictive taste of the ditto copy machine, clicking each paper that steals my time&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441,5],"tags":[2180],"class_list":["post-129154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-hour3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129154","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\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129559,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129154\/revisions\/129559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}