{"id":136031,"date":"2023-09-02T19:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136031"},"modified":"2023-09-02T19:59:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:59:43","slug":"the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting patiently to be opened<\/p>\n<p>The weathered book sat dejected<\/p>\n<p>On the coffee table<\/p>\n<p>Near the bed<\/p>\n<p>Quietly<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Getting ready to amaze with words<\/p>\n<p>Images and ideas<\/p>\n<p>to take the reader on a journey<\/p>\n<p>far away<\/p>\n<p>and yet close by<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Painting with imaginative<\/p>\n<p>inferences and vocabulary<\/p>\n<p>the reader can enjoy their own take<\/p>\n<p>on what is there<\/p>\n<p>or what is not.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anticipating the journey ahead<\/p>\n<p>the book grins ear to ear<\/p>\n<p>until it is thrown on the floor<\/p>\n<p>in a fit of disgust,<\/p>\n<p>with a thud and a groan of contempt<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting patiently to be opened The weathered book sat dejected On the coffee table Near the bed Quietly &nbsp; Getting ready to amaze with words Images and ideas to take the reader on a journey far away and yet close by &nbsp; Painting with imaginative&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136031","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\/136031","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\/5081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136031"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136414,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136031\/revisions\/136414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}