{"id":139204,"date":"2023-09-03T00:22:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T04:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=139204"},"modified":"2023-09-03T00:22:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T04:22:15","slug":"hour-16-the-pirate-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-16-the-pirate-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 16: The Pirate House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We called it the pirate house<\/p>\n<p>With a spiral staircase<\/p>\n<p>And a trap door<\/p>\n<p>And a tree house in the yard<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I loved it from the second I stepped inside<\/p>\n<p>It was wonderful and strange<\/p>\n<p>A hodgepodge from those who came before<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d pretend the trees in the yard were a jungle<\/p>\n<p>And that we were adventurers<\/p>\n<p>Never touching the ground<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I taught myself to slide down the bannister<\/p>\n<p>Into a room that forever smelled like burning wood<\/p>\n<p>Step out into a world bathed in snow<\/p>\n<p>Or soaked in rain<\/p>\n<p>Or covered in summer spiders<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I grieved that house when we left<\/p>\n<p>Like leaving behind an old friend<\/p>\n<p>I hope whoever comes next<\/p>\n<p>Loves the spiral staircase<\/p>\n<p>And the trap door<\/p>\n<p>And the tree house<\/p>\n<p>Just as much as we did<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We called it the pirate house With a spiral staircase And a trap door And a tree house in the yard &nbsp; I loved it from the second I stepped inside It was wonderful and strange A hodgepodge from those who came before &nbsp; We\u2019d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139204","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\/5302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139211,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139204\/revisions\/139211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}