{"id":130697,"date":"2023-09-02T14:37:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=130697"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:37:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:37:15","slug":"24-hour-marathon-hour-6-a-tribute-to-a-a-milne-the-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/24-hour-marathon-hour-6-a-tribute-to-a-a-milne-the-process\/","title":{"rendered":"24 Hour Marathon Hour 6: A Tribute to A. A. Milne &#8220;The Process&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was ten<br \/>\nI was well beyond the pen<br \/>\nbut I still tended to rattle<br \/>\nand the conflict was quite a battle<\/p>\n<p>When I was twenty<br \/>\nI drank my beer aplenty<br \/>\nbut still got through college<br \/>\nbut, with a minimum of knowledge<\/p>\n<p>When I was thirty<br \/>\nI met a girl who was purty<br \/>\nmarried with kids<br \/>\na New Year&#8217;s eve banging lids<\/p>\n<p>When I was forty<br \/>\nI thought I was rather sporty<br \/>\nwearing snazzy jackets<br \/>\nand ties that made a racket<\/p>\n<p>When I was fifty<br \/>\nI was still pretty nifty<br \/>\ngrey hair, quite dignified<br \/>\nbut a belly growing wide<\/p>\n<p>When I was sixty<br \/>\nI was somewhat betwixty<br \/>\nwas I young or old<br \/>\nI was never told<\/p>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;m seventy<br \/>\nI am becoming benty<br \/>\narthritic pain<br \/>\nand worse in the rain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was ten I was well beyond the pen but I still tended to rattle and the conflict was quite a battle When I was twenty I drank my beer aplenty but still got through college but, with a minimum of knowledge When I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3095,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130697","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\/3095"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131951,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130697\/revisions\/131951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}