{"id":138121,"date":"2023-09-02T22:50:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=138121"},"modified":"2023-09-02T22:50:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:50:55","slug":"rough-diamond-under-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/rough-diamond-under-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rough Diamond Under Construction&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hour Fourteen<\/p>\n<p>Ekphrastic<\/p>\n<p>Screw class. Love is more important.<\/p>\n<p>But I need cash.<\/p>\n<p>Constructing our lives together by looking into a construction site through a diamond cut hole?<\/p>\n<p>I watch buildings rise. What concrete? What mortar? What do I use as beams, without a foundation?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll go to class, looks like just missed first period.<\/p>\n<p>As my grandpa said, &#8220;Assess, reassess and aim high.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sitting at a construction site, watching a building rise through a diamond cut hole.<\/p>\n<p>Where am I going? How do I rise up? Not by sitting on the outside. Building nothing of myself out here.<\/p>\n<p>Aim high, school. DMW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour Fourteen Ekphrastic Screw class. Love is more important. But I need cash. Constructing our lives together by looking into a construction site through a diamond cut hole? I watch buildings rise. What concrete? What mortar? What do I use as beams, without a foundation?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138121","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\/5306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138380,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138121\/revisions\/138380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}