{"id":137344,"date":"2023-09-02T21:18:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=137344"},"modified":"2023-09-02T21:18:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:18:53","slug":"hour-1-researcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-1-researcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 1: Researcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wasn&#8217;t I born for my profession?<br \/>\nSearch and seize have been my forte<br \/>\nEver since I have been an imp.<br \/>\nWould catch a cockroach or two<br \/>\nExamine them minutely<br \/>\nWondered why they breathed their last in my hands<br \/>\nGarden flies, butterflies, hot kitchen vessels<br \/>\nNothing escaped my attention.<br \/>\nGrew up to be a Pharma chemist.<br \/>\nI killed more mice than the cancer that we grew on them<br \/>\nColorful medicinal compounds would I make<br \/>\nAnd dose them on the poor critters.<br \/>\nMiserable they were but they did teach me<br \/>\nThose also serve that wait and hope<br \/>\nIn all earnestness noble was my profession<br \/>\nOverfive decades of dedicated work<br \/>\nMany a medicaments have I developed<br \/>\nThey are but a disappearing drop<br \/>\nIn the ocean of knowledge that still lays uncovered<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wasn&#8217;t I born for my profession? Search and seize have been my forte Ever since I have been an imp. Would catch a cockroach or two Examine them minutely Wondered why they breathed their last in my hands Garden flies, butterflies, hot kitchen vessels Nothing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4548,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137344","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\/4548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137451,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137344\/revisions\/137451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}