{"id":133032,"date":"2023-09-02T15:57:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133032"},"modified":"2023-09-21T12:23:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T16:23:09","slug":"hour-7-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-7-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"hour 7 &#8211; conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my mother worships a god of parking spots.<br \/>\nall the problems and all the wars and all those hungry babies&#8211;<br \/>\nbut i do the easy things first, too,<br \/>\ncross off wake up, make coffee, on a list<br \/>\nthat might go on to cure cancer or<br \/>\nwalk the moon&#8211;<br \/>\nbut probably not.<\/p>\n<p>life is discovery, i guess,<br \/>\nevery pathetic love letter, every dew-fresh morning<br \/>\nand why can&#8217;t they live together<br \/>\nthat old witch and her goldfish<br \/>\nwhy not every odd pairing,<br \/>\nevery gift given freely,<br \/>\nevery city swinging wildly<br \/>\non the grand dumb whim of tectonic plates.<\/p>\n<p>i don&#8217;t want some white-lined,<br \/>\nsanitized, god of convenience&#8211;<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t ask me to pray.<br \/>\ngive me instead those who believe in:<\/p>\n<p>a caught breath, the pause before,<br \/>\nevery wish i have for you,<br \/>\nevery wringing hand.<br \/>\nthe last croak of the percolator,<br \/>\nthe welcoming dawn.<\/p>\n<p>sure as that first awareness<br \/>\nof the damn cat outside<br \/>\nand the sun on the window<br \/>\ntoday&#8217;s another knock-down, drag-out, fifty-fifty<br \/>\nand tomorrow is the place<br \/>\nwhere i gently plant my hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my mother worships a god of parking spots. all the problems and all the wars and all those hungry babies&#8211; but i do the easy things first, too, cross off wake up, make coffee, on a list that might go on to cure cancer or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133032","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\/5315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133032"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145540,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133032\/revisions\/145540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}