{"id":136797,"date":"2023-09-02T20:31:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136797"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:31:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:31:10","slug":"12-delivered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/12-delivered\/","title":{"rendered":"12   Delivered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting for the mail to come<\/p>\n<p>I listen for the truck<\/p>\n<p>Should a new package appear<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happily in luck<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know the thump of Amazon<\/p>\n<p>I hear it many times<\/p>\n<p>Bags and boxes hit the porch<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s better than wind chimes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today I wait for bathroom bulbs<\/p>\n<p>Mine are starting to burn out<\/p>\n<p>There is a book I&#8217;m hoping for<\/p>\n<p>Arrive today I am in doubt<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I live alone except for Millie<\/p>\n<p>Her hedgehog came last week<\/p>\n<p>She too perks her head<\/p>\n<p>Near the window she will peek<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I must reign in and order less<\/p>\n<p>As winter&#8217;s months approach<\/p>\n<p>Heating bill will come to pass<\/p>\n<p>As I surrender to reproach<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting for the mail to come I listen for the truck Should a new package appear I&#8217;m happily in luck &nbsp; I know the thump of Amazon I hear it many times Bags and boxes hit the porch It&#8217;s better than wind chimes &nbsp; Today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136797","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\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136898,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136797\/revisions\/136898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}