{"id":137526,"date":"2023-09-02T21:25:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=137526"},"modified":"2023-09-02T21:25:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T01:25:24","slug":"hour-13-steady-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-13-steady-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 13 &#8211; Steady Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Steady Hands<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ball, she rolls, around and \u2018round,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whirring through the gates and chutes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Buzzers and lights flash bout trying to distract.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Focus cannot be sheared like electric sheep<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As man versus machine becomes the war,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each slap of the sides of the box, increasing score.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The numbers only matter slightly<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There\u2019s no true prize to be won in this battle,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Except for the possibility of another game. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steady Hands &nbsp; The ball, she rolls, around and \u2018round, Whirring through the gates and chutes.\u00a0 Buzzers and lights flash bout trying to distract. Focus cannot be sheared like electric sheep As man versus machine becomes the war, Each slap of the sides of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1038,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137526","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\/1038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137536,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137526\/revisions\/137536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}