{"id":139002,"date":"2023-09-03T01:16:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=139002"},"modified":"2023-09-03T11:29:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T15:29:23","slug":"hour-15-backwards-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-15-backwards-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 15: Backwards Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I walked through my mirror<\/p>\n<p>Imagine what would lie in wait<\/p>\n<p>Everything just opposite<\/p>\n<p>Of my life today<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I would step through the frame<\/p>\n<p>To see a bedroom free of clutter<\/p>\n<p>A phone call coming in<\/p>\n<p>From my loving, caring mother<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My sisters in the living room<\/p>\n<p>To help me choose an outfit<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a line of suitors out the door<\/p>\n<p>I can count that high, but can\u2019t pronounce it<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t need to go to work today<\/p>\n<p>I already won the lottery<\/p>\n<p>I work anyway, \u2018cause I\u2019m artist<\/p>\n<p>They say a downright prodigy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I can do the things I love again<\/p>\n<p>My body feels no pain<\/p>\n<p>And every ounce of anguish<\/p>\n<p>Has simply gone away<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I walked through my mirror Imagine what would lie in wait Everything just opposite Of my life today &nbsp; I would step through the frame To see a bedroom free of clutter A phone call coming in From my loving, caring mother &nbsp; My&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139002","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\/4616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139669,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139002\/revisions\/139669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}