{"id":136222,"date":"2023-09-02T20:20:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136222"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:21:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:21:42","slug":"the-number-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-number-a-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Number &#8220;A Lot&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hour Eleven <\/p>\n<p>How many grains of sand on a beach?<br \/>\nHow many minds can one teach?<br \/>\nHow many atoms make up this land?<br \/>\nHow often should each soul lend a hand?<br \/>\nHow many leaves fall in the autumn?<br \/>\nHow many have been beaten down by criticism?<br \/>\nHow many planets and stars in the &#8216;verse?<br \/>\nHow many dandelion puffs disperse?<br \/>\nHow many words describe my heart?<br \/>\nHow many times does one restart?<br \/>\nHow many days have you loved me?<br \/>\nHow many hours spent daydreaming?<br \/>\nHow many years should one spend in lack?<br \/>\nHow many whispers behind the back?<br \/>\nHow many eyes gloss over a person?<br \/>\nHow many instances should be allowed to worsen?<br \/>\nHow many raindrops imprint the earth?<br \/>\nHow many return home to the hearth?<br \/>\nHow many snowflakes build up the drifts?<br \/>\nHow many times does the world and societies shift?<br \/>\nWhat digits constitute the number &#8220;a lot&#8221;?<br \/>\nQuantifying the total would be a longshot. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour Eleven How many grains of sand on a beach? How many minds can one teach? How many atoms make up this land? How often should each soul lend a hand? How many leaves fall in the autumn? How many have been beaten down by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1485,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5772,5765,680,3019,2158,326,15,228,391,10,355,390,1084],"class_list":["post-136222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-2023poetrymarathon","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-full-marathon","tag-marathon","tag-poem","tag-poems","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-poetry-marathon","tag-writer","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136222","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\/1485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136751,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136222\/revisions\/136751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}