{"id":140207,"date":"2023-09-03T02:29:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=140207"},"modified":"2023-09-03T02:29:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:29:50","slug":"hour-18-ghostie-ghost-come-out-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-18-ghostie-ghost-come-out-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 18 &#8211; Ghostie-Ghost, Come Out Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghostie-Ghost, Come Out Tonight!<\/p>\n<p>Arms linked<br \/>\nWe marched around the yard<br \/>\nShouting and shivering<br \/>\nIn fear, in the dark<\/p>\n<p>One o\u2019clock \u2013 no ghost!<br \/>\nTwo o\u2019clock \u2013 no ghost!<br \/>\nThree o\u2019clock \u2013 no ghost!<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in the bushes<br \/>\nOr around the next bend<br \/>\nA companion waited<br \/>\nTo jump out and scare us<\/p>\n<p>Ten o\u2019clock \u2013 no ghost!<br \/>\nEleven o\u2019clock \u2013 no ghost!<br \/>\nTwelve o\u2019clock \u2013 Ghostie-Ghost! Come out tonight! <\/p>\n<p>Having played both roles<br \/>\nI now wonder which was scarier:<br \/>\nLooking for the \u201cghost\u201d in the midst of a gang<br \/>\nOr waiting to make the scare &#8211; alone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghostie-Ghost, Come Out Tonight! Arms linked We marched around the yard Shouting and shivering In fear, in the dark One o\u2019clock \u2013 no ghost! Two o\u2019clock \u2013 no ghost! Three o\u2019clock \u2013 no ghost! Somewhere in the bushes Or around the next bend A companion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140207","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\/1047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140217,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140207\/revisions\/140217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}