{"id":133600,"date":"2023-09-02T17:21:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133600"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:21:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:21:49","slug":"word-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/word-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letters have power.<br \/>\nDid you know?<br \/>\nJust by changing a letter or two,<br \/>\nyou can change the world.<\/p>\n<p>Change &#8220;beet&#8221; to &#8220;beef&#8221;<br \/>\nand you change a vegetable<br \/>\ninto a meat.<\/p>\n<p>Change &#8220;jacket&#8221; to &#8220;jackel&#8221;<br \/>\nand you change something that can protect you<br \/>\ninto something that can tear you apart.<\/p>\n<p>Change &#8220;bucket&#8221; into &#8220;bucked&#8221;<br \/>\nand you change something that holds<br \/>\ninto something that casts off.<\/p>\n<p>Change &#8220;elk&#8221; to &#8220;elm&#8221;<br \/>\nand you can change something that can provide<br \/>\nshade to the other.<\/p>\n<p>And, even though it takes two changes,<br \/>\nYou can change &#8220;cinnomen&#8221; into &#8220;cinnamon&#8221;<br \/>\nand have a spice spelled correctly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letters have power. Did you know? Just by changing a letter or two, you can change the world. Change &#8220;beet&#8221; to &#8220;beef&#8221; and you change a vegetable into a meat. Change &#8220;jacket&#8221; to &#8220;jackel&#8221; and you change something that can protect you into something that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[2376],"class_list":["post-133600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-hour9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133600","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\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134223,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133600\/revisions\/134223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}