{"id":129812,"date":"2023-09-02T12:17:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129812"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:28:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:28:33","slug":"hour-four-till-broken-ankles-we-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-four-till-broken-ankles-we-part\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Four: Till Broken Ankles We Part"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Perhaps you\u2019ve heard of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A game of chasing the bouncing ball,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Only your chained feet can go slow or<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">As fast as your tethered limb can carry<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another body, vying for leadership,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sometimes taut, sometimes limp,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Submitting to your pace, if necessary,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seeking the elusive finish line<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">If only they find the rhythm, even<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">For a step or an oddish two down the aisle,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Up the avenue, across the street, a dead end<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Where the banner reads: Till broken ankles<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">We part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you\u2019ve heard of it. A game of chasing the bouncing ball, Only your chained feet can go slow or As fast as your tethered limb can carry Another body, vying for leadership, Sometimes taut, sometimes limp, Submitting to your pace, if necessary, Seeking the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129812","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130237,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129812\/revisions\/130237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}