{"id":130547,"date":"2023-09-02T11:42:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T15:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=130547"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:31:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:31:48","slug":"chasing-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/chasing-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I scout around, I scent the air<br \/>\nQuite fruitlessly I cast my fly<br \/>\nNo inspiration anywhere<\/p>\n<p>The barren minutes flutter by<br \/>\nMy thoughts net only empty space<br \/>\nQuite fruitlessly I cast my fly<\/p>\n<p>My idle pen just spins in place<br \/>\nVague doodles overtake the page<br \/>\nMy thoughts net only empty space<\/p>\n<p>I seek this dullness to assuage<br \/>\nIn metaphor and meta-verse<br \/>\nVague doodles overtake the page<\/p>\n<p>Such tricks just make my struggles worse<br \/>\nA wild goose chase of wasted time<br \/>\nIn metaphor and meta-verse<\/p>\n<p>So as I pen this final rhyme<br \/>\nI scout around, I scent the air<br \/>\nA wild goose chase of wasted time<br \/>\nNo inspiration anywhere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I scout around, I scent the air Quite fruitlessly I cast my fly No inspiration anywhere The barren minutes flutter by My thoughts net only empty space Quite fruitlessly I cast my fly My idle pen just spins in place Vague doodles overtake the page&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5864,5941],"class_list":["post-130547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2023hour3","tag-terzanelle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130547","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\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130920,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130547\/revisions\/130920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}