{"id":137268,"date":"2023-09-02T21:19:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=137268"},"modified":"2023-09-02T22:40:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:40:41","slug":"2023-hour-13-frozen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/2023-hour-13-frozen\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Hour 13: Frozen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Prompt: Humorous account of workplace<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am settling into a new role in life,<br \/>\nTaking on the mantle of reading tutor.<br \/>\nSharing my passion for words and stories,<br \/>\nWith lovely, eager boys and girls<br \/>\nWearing big bright smiles<br \/>\nAnd wanting so much to please.<\/p>\n<p>I sit with every child<br \/>\nFor their allotted time each day,<br \/>\nAnd we explore letters and sounds,<br \/>\nDigraphs, blends and magic e&#8217;s,<br \/>\nAnd practice reading with the smooth fluidity<br \/>\nOf everyday, every-person speech.<\/p>\n<p>I sit with them, and yet far from them,<br \/>\nBecause they are in front of their laptop,<br \/>\nAnd I in front of mine.<br \/>\nAnd when the vital internet connection<br \/>\nStruggles and glitches and lags,<br \/>\nOne sweet little boy in Arkansas<br \/>\nFrantically taps his screen and calls,<br \/>\n&#8220;Ma&#8217;am! Ma&#8217;am! Are you OK?<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re frozen.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt: Humorous account of workplace I am settling into a new role in life, Taking on the mantle of reading tutor. Sharing my passion for words and stories, With lovely, eager boys and girls Wearing big bright smiles And wanting so much to please. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":996,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137268","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\/996"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137268"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138287,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137268\/revisions\/138287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}