{"id":131405,"date":"2023-09-02T14:07:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=131405"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:07:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:07:42","slug":"hour-6-duke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-6-duke\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 6-Duke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duke is here.<\/p>\n<p>Head hanging over the edge<\/p>\n<p>of his bed<\/p>\n<p>not mine, ever.<\/p>\n<p>I have books piled around him.<\/p>\n<p>He is fine with that.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier he was on a pillow.<\/p>\n<p>Lodged beneath a clean shirt.<\/p>\n<p>Before that he watched his dude<\/p>\n<p>type his own poems<\/p>\n<p>in the other room.<\/p>\n<p>Duke does not understand<\/p>\n<p>crazy people up<\/p>\n<p>in the middle of the night.<\/p>\n<p>Writing things and making noise.<\/p>\n<p>Now he lays, head turned<\/p>\n<p>I can just make out his smile.<\/p>\n<p>He pretends to be annoyed.<\/p>\n<p>But he is a happy boy<\/p>\n<p>sleeping between piles of books.<\/p>\n<p>On his favorite bed.<\/p>\n<p>Laying precariously<\/p>\n<p>on the edge of his world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duke is here. Head hanging over the edge of his bed not mine, ever. I have books piled around him. He is fine with that. Earlier he was on a pillow. Lodged beneath a clean shirt. Before that he watched his dude type his own&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131405","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131509,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131405\/revisions\/131509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}