{"id":134589,"date":"2023-09-02T17:53:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134589"},"modified":"2023-09-02T18:09:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T22:09:59","slug":"blue-bayou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/blue-bayou\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Bayou #9"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>My man Elk had 'Blue Bayou' on repeat all\r\nday. Grabbing my jacket I \r\nheaded out to pull some beets for\r\ndinner. It was too late to\r\npickle them, but I thought\r\na stick of cinnamon in the pot would\r\nspice it up, maybe add a red pepper too.\r\n\r\nI felt the tremor, grabbed the bucket and \r\nstarted to run, towards the house. I \r\nstumbled and fell as\r\nthe ground began to roll. In a\r\nminute, all was still. Must have\r\nhit my elbow because it ached\r\nlike anything.\r\n\r\nWhen I got to the house, Elk was\r\nstanding in the carport looking at the\r\nruins of the house. He held a light\r\nbulb in one hand. In the other, \r\nhe held his phone. \r\nIt was still playing \r\n\"Blue Bayou\".<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My man Elk had &#8216;Blue Bayou&#8217; on repeat all day. Grabbing my jacket I headed out to pull some beets for dinner. It was too late to pickle them, but I thought a stick of cinnamon in the pot would spice it up, maybe add&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134589","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\/1210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134589"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134955,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134589\/revisions\/134955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}