{"id":130428,"date":"2023-09-02T13:48:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=130428"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:48:26","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:48:26","slug":"the-piano-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-piano-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Piano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keys of black and white<\/p>\n<p>lined up in a row.<\/p>\n<p>twos and threes, a combination that makes a melodic sound.<\/p>\n<p>Flat and sharp, whole note or half;<\/p>\n<p>when they come together they make music.<\/p>\n<p>Music we all know and love.<\/p>\n<p>Music <em>Unforgettable<\/em>; like <em>Yesterday<\/em>. Do you remember?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Music of spring and flowers that bloom.<\/p>\n<p>Autumn Leaves that fall and Wedding Bell Blues.<\/p>\n<p>Words we all want to say,<\/p>\n<p>but Without A song we couldn&#8217;t second That Emotion or Cry The Tears Of A Clown when no one is around.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seductive or dramatic<\/p>\n<p>loud or soft<\/p>\n<p>when the first note is struck<\/p>\n<p>we want to name that tune.<\/p>\n<p>Acoustic, electronic,<\/p>\n<p>baby grand or upright<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s the player and the song<\/p>\n<p>the voicing you can&#8217;t get out of your head.<\/p>\n<p>late in the midnight hour you&#8217;ll remember<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve Got A Friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keys of black and white lined up in a row. twos and threes, a combination that makes a melodic sound. Flat and sharp, whole note or half; when they come together they make music. Music we all know and love. Music Unforgettable; like Yesterday. Do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1739,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130428","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\/1739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131231,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130428\/revisions\/131231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}