{"id":140847,"date":"2023-09-03T08:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=140847"},"modified":"2023-09-05T14:23:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T18:23:06","slug":"hour-24-hope-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-24-hope-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 24 &#8211; Hope is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hope is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>something I always write about.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, in a quick search, I used hope in<\/p>\n<p>three poems in the last 24 hours: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/mrsdkrebs\/hour-1-golden-shovel\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/mrsdkrebs\/hour-4-a-pantoum-on-connection\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/mrsdkrebs\/hour-16-dictionary-entry\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(And seven times the last time I did a Poetry Marathon.<\/p>\n<p>And, on my <a href=\"https:\/\/mrsdkrebs.edublogs.org\/\">blog<\/a>, don&#8217;t get me counting. I seem to include<\/p>\n<p>Hope more than anything else.) Hope is here,<\/p>\n<p>the perfect little handful of a word.<\/p>\n<p>A perfect world-full remedy to heal our brokenness.<\/p>\n<p>If we lose hope, we&#8217;ll fall out of the sky,<\/p>\n<p>plucked like Emily&#8217;s thing without feathers.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s keep hope.<\/p>\n<p><em>(And we made it, we&#8217;ve Poetry Marathoned to the end!)<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"k6h4iNBhqE\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/the-poetry-marathon-prompts\/prompt-for-hour-twenty-four-4\">Prompt for Hour Twenty-Four<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Prompt for Hour Twenty-Four&#8221; &#8212; The Poetry Marathon\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/the-poetry-marathon-prompts\/prompt-for-hour-twenty-four-4\/embed#?secret=T1ncj1JuRw#?secret=k6h4iNBhqE\" data-secret=\"k6h4iNBhqE\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope is&#8230; something I always write about. In fact, in a quick search, I used hope in three poems in the last 24 hours: here and here and here (And seven times the last time I did a Poetry Marathon. And, on my blog, don&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-140847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-hope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140847","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\/3549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140847"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144967,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140847\/revisions\/144967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}