{"id":135932,"date":"2023-09-02T19:29:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=135932"},"modified":"2023-09-02T19:29:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:29:57","slug":"ode-to-the-air-conditioner-hour-eleven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/ode-to-the-air-conditioner-hour-eleven\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to the Air Conditioner &#8211; Hour Eleven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ode to the Air Conditioner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh! A\/C how I praise thee!<br \/>\nThrough all these hot summer days<br \/>\nI may sometimes hide beneath blankets<br \/>\nBut you&#8217;re here in my debt and my praise<br \/>\nI would never make it without you<br \/>\nWith you, I&#8217;ve the strength to subsist<br \/>\nYou help me to maintain my focus<br \/>\nYou make sure that I can exist<\/p>\n<p>All hail thee, mighty A\/C friend<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re always there when I need<br \/>\nSometimes I feel I abuse you<br \/>\nBut you see it as part of your creed<br \/>\nYou know that the heat leaves me restless<br \/>\nIt ravages body and mind<br \/>\nBut you remain true to your purpose<br \/>\nThe most loyal friend I can find<\/p>\n<p>Oh A\/C! You know all my strong points<br \/>\nYou know all my weaknesses too<br \/>\nI owe my good health to your presence<br \/>\nI thank you for staying so true<br \/>\nSummer heat, humid days and my asthma<br \/>\nAre not the three best things that should mix<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;ll bow my head now before you<br \/>\nFor the temp read of seventy-six!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ode to the Air Conditioner Oh! A\/C how I praise thee! Through all these hot summer days I may sometimes hide beneath blankets But you&#8217;re here in my debt and my praise I would never make it without you With you, I&#8217;ve the strength to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441],"tags":[5772,5765,1806,3456,6102,355,392],"class_list":["post-135932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-2023poetrymarathon","tag-jill-eisnaugle","tag-jill-halasz","tag-ode-to-air","tag-poetry-marathon","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135932","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136051,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135932\/revisions\/136051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}