{"id":132823,"date":"2023-09-02T15:37:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=132823"},"modified":"2023-09-02T15:37:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:37:45","slug":"hour-seven-the-knitters-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-seven-the-knitters-lament\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Seven: The Knitter&#8217;s Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Knitter\u2019s Lament<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I followed the directions<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">with the promise of perfection,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">rows counted and decreased,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and counted once again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If I did what was written and if<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I followed the directions,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was guaranteed.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So I did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Or I thought I did.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Increasing, decreasing,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I followed the directions.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I would do it all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the end it was its own.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not what was promised, but lovely, still.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Somewhat like me, because that\u2019s how<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I followed the directions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-132834\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5292-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5292-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5292-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5292-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5292-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5292-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Knitter\u2019s Lament I followed the directions with the promise of perfection, rows counted and decreased, and counted once again. If I did what was written and if I followed the directions, It was guaranteed. So I did. Or I thought I did. Increasing, decreasing,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132823","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\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132858,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132823\/revisions\/132858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}