{"id":14091,"date":"2015-06-14T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=14091"},"modified":"2015-06-14T08:00:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T12:00:44","slug":"poem-20-the-you-tube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/poem-20-the-you-tube\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 20:  The You Tube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telling me to write a poem to a<br \/>\nYouTube song is about as useful<br \/>\nas telling me to stop loving you.<br \/>\nFirst of all, the damn ad comes on,<br \/>\ndistorting from the get-go whatever<br \/>\nthe song might have been. And<br \/>\nthen the damn drums, like the<br \/>\nlittle boy who is supposed to play<br \/>\nfor Jesus, but loud drums make<br \/>\nthe baby cry, so what will we do<br \/>\nfor a savior after that?<br \/>\nAnd what will we do, you and I?<br \/>\nWho will save us from what\u2019s ahead,<br \/>\nthe stove left on, the Silver Alert,<br \/>\nwhich we joke about, like its Florida\u2019s<br \/>\nfolly, but we both know we will need it<br \/>\nsomeday, if you get lost and I can\u2019t find you,<br \/>\non the way to Fort DeSoto or Sanibel. Who<br \/>\nwill save us from this damn repetitive tune,<br \/>\nover and over again? I hope I\u2019ll forget it<br \/>\ncompletely, today, this morning, before<br \/>\nbreakfast, and not have it stuck in my head,<br \/>\nlike \u201cThree Times A Lady,\u201d or God forbid,<br \/>\n\u201cCome, they told me, pa rump a pum pum.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telling me to write a poem to a YouTube song is about as useful as telling me to stop loving you. First of all, the damn ad comes on, distorting from the get-go whatever the song might have been. And then the damn drums, like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14091","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\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14114,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14091\/revisions\/14114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}