{"id":134197,"date":"2023-09-02T17:22:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134197"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:22:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:22:04","slug":"prompt-nine-goodbye-joe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/prompt-nine-goodbye-joe\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt Nine &#8211; Goodbye Joe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/the-poetry-marathon-prompts\/prompt-for-hour-nine-6\">Prompt for Hour Nine<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Text Prompt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Below is a list of ten words. Please pick at least five of them to use in your poem. If you want to use all ten, please do so.<\/p>\n<p>Beet, jacket, tremor, bayou, elbow, lightbulb, cinnamon, bucket, elk, carport<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Goodbye Joe<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Mummy, what\u2019s a bayou?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Struggling to get his elbow<\/p>\n<p>into his school jacket sleeve<\/p>\n<p>she said she didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Mummy,\u2019 he said, with the familiar<\/p>\n<p>tremor back in his voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You said you knew everything.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>She had no choice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seizing a lightbulb moment,<\/p>\n<p>she led him into the carport<\/p>\n<p>switched on the stereo in the car<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You\u2019ll find out on the way, sport.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Found what she was looking for<\/p>\n<p>And soon they were singing along<\/p>\n<p>To the Carpenters, mother and son<\/p>\n<p>Jambalaya \u2013 what a song.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt for Hour Nine Text Prompt: Below is a list of ten words. Please pick at least five of them to use in your poem. If you want to use all ten, please do so. Beet, jacket, tremor, bayou, elbow, lightbulb, cinnamon, bucket, elk, carport&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[5772,5765,680,3019,355],"class_list":["post-134197","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-2023fullmarathon","tag-2023poetrymarathon","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-poetry-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134197","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\/1430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134228,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134197\/revisions\/134228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}