{"id":134166,"date":"2023-09-02T17:19:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134166"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:19:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:19:23","slug":"prompt-nine-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/prompt-nine-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bedtime<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>My heart it tremors<\/div>\n<div>my cheeks beet red<\/div>\n<div>I try to stare at the lightbulb<\/div>\n<div>above his head<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Focus on something<\/div>\n<div>besides his keys in the ignition<\/div>\n<div>As we say goodbye<\/div>\n<div>in the carport of indecision<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We have been here<\/div>\n<div>a time or two before<\/div>\n<div>An elbow to the face<\/div>\n<div>and a jacket he tore<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Seven years ago<\/div>\n<div>I said no, never again<\/div>\n<div>But here we are<\/div>\n<div>We still pretend<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My heart it tremors<\/div>\n<div>My cheeks beat red<\/div>\n<div>The carport is finally empty<\/div>\n<div>And I am ready for bed<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>C. Churchill<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bedtime &nbsp; My heart it tremors my cheeks beet red I try to stare at the lightbulb above his head Focus on something besides his keys in the ignition As we say goodbye in the carport of indecision We have been here a time or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134166","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\/1055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134182,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134166\/revisions\/134182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}