{"id":137512,"date":"2023-09-02T21:24:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=137512"},"modified":"2023-09-02T21:24:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:24:37","slug":"profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/profession\/","title":{"rendered":"Profession"},"content":{"rendered":"

Up with the sun;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

to bed with the chickens.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Days rush by,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Calendar quickens.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m sitting around,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

getting older than dirt.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t write this poem<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

because I don\u2019t work.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

My \u2018profession\u2019 you ask,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

is it not \u2018God is Good\u2019?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He provides all I need,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I could want, ever would.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And when at close of my tombstone date,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I won\u2019t say goodbye; I\u2019ll just walk through the gate.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Up with the sun; to bed with the chickens. Days rush by, Calendar quickens. I\u2019m sitting around, getting older than dirt. I can\u2019t write this poem because I don\u2019t work. My \u2018profession\u2019 you ask, is it not \u2018God is Good\u2019? He provides all I need,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":564,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137512","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\/564"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137522,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137512\/revisions\/137522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}