{"id":133086,"date":"2023-09-02T15:58:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133086"},"modified":"2023-09-03T15:25:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T19:25:30","slug":"horseshoe-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/horseshoe-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Horseshoe Lake  (Prompt 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red-and-white bobber, awaiting a fish<br \/>\nundulating with the most minute of waves<br \/>\nunsyncopated rhythm, delicate gliding<br \/>\nover water \u2013 visual mantra of my youth <\/p>\n<p>sitting on the end of grandparents\u2019 dock<br \/>\nred-and-white bobber, awaiting a fish<br \/>\npatience a virtue strange to age nine<br \/>\nunless passing time on a Minnesota lake<\/p>\n<p>there is an adage spoken by grandpas,<br \/>\ngrandmas who took no boat back seats<br \/>\nred-and-white bobber, awaiting a fish<br \/>\n\u2018they call it fishing, not catching\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Those days were simpler, nostalgia isn\u2019t<br \/>\nwistful, therapeutic \u2013 everything in between<br \/>\nthese were useful skills, meditative still<br \/>\njust a red-and-white bobber, awaiting a fish<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2023<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd\">http:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red-and-white bobber, awaiting a fish undulating with the most minute of waves unsyncopated rhythm, delicate gliding over water \u2013 visual mantra of my youth sitting on the end of grandparents\u2019 dock red-and-white bobber, awaiting a fish patience a virtue strange to age nine unless passing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[5989,5765,6009],"class_list":["post-133086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-2023hour7","tag-2023poetrymarathon","tag-2023prompt7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133086","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133086"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144321,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133086\/revisions\/144321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}