{"id":141272,"date":"2023-09-03T04:53:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T08:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=141272"},"modified":"2023-09-03T05:18:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:18:42","slug":"unbroken-hour-eight-a-non-traditional-minute-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/unbroken-hour-eight-a-non-traditional-minute-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"UnBrOkEn (Hour Eight, A Non-traditional Minute Poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">UnBrOkEn<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Too blind to see, too deaf to hear<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">A four-eyed freak<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">with Bluetooth ears<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">But wait, there&#8217;s more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Adorned with spots from head to toe<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">and facial hair<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">so bright it glows<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">for all to see&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Encumbered by ADHD,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">high A1C,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">and wonky knee&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Yep, that be me!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(A traditional minute poem is made up of 60 total syllables divided among three stanzas of four lines each, with the syllabic count of 8\/4\/4\/4. Traditional minute poems are written in iambic pentameter following a rhyme scheme of <strong><em>aabb, ccdd, eeff.<\/em><\/strong> To save myself the struggle, I have eliminated these last two requirements, resulting in the non-traditional minute format displayed here.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UnBrOkEn &nbsp; Too blind to see, too deaf to hear A four-eyed freak with Bluetooth ears But wait, there&#8217;s more&#8230; Adorned with spots from head to toe and facial hair so bright it glows for all to see&#8230; Encumbered by ADHD, high A1C, and wonky&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141272","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\/1212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141632,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141272\/revisions\/141632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}