{"id":136471,"date":"2023-09-02T20:12:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136471"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:12:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:12:17","slug":"hour-12-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-12-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 12-Afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The afternoon is sauntering by.<\/p>\n<p>The sky is nearly clear,<\/p>\n<p>just a few far-off clouds<\/p>\n<p>that do not pose any threat.<\/p>\n<p>It is warm, I sit under one fan,<\/p>\n<p>another\u00a0whirs in behind me.<\/p>\n<p>I am aware Bear and Duke are nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Poem number 12,<\/p>\n<p>the halfway mark.<\/p>\n<p>It is downhill from here.<\/p>\n<p>The gentle clicking of the keyboard,<\/p>\n<p>the whir of the fans,<\/p>\n<p>the blue, blue sky,<\/p>\n<p>all reminding me to hang on,<\/p>\n<p>be strong,<\/p>\n<p>Dance with the poems<\/p>\n<p>in front of you<\/p>\n<p>Let go of the poems behind.<\/p>\n<p>Write for this moment in time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The afternoon is sauntering by. The sky is nearly clear, just a few far-off clouds that do not pose any threat. It is warm, I sit under one fan, another\u00a0whirs in behind me. I am aware Bear and Duke are nearby. Poem number 12, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136471","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136614,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136471\/revisions\/136614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}