{"id":142927,"date":"2023-09-03T07:27:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=142927"},"modified":"2023-09-03T07:27:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T11:27:41","slug":"writers-lament-hour-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/writers-lament-hour-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer\u2019s Lament &#8211; Hour 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sit down early morning<br \/>\nquiet time to write<br \/>\nWords fill my mind<br \/>\nfingers poised to type<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMommy, I\u2019m hungry!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Words erased from memory<br \/>\ncomputer goes to sleep<br \/>\ntime to take care of<br \/>\nall my little peeps<\/p>\n<p>Breakfast is over<br \/>\ndishes are done<br \/>\nSlip back behind my computer<br \/>\nsign in all again<\/p>\n<p>Fingers poised again<br \/>\nremembering the words<br \/>\nStory reforms in my mind<br \/>\na few strikes of the keys<\/p>\n<p>Interrupted again<br \/>\ndoggie pushing against my leg<br \/>\nWhining to go out<br \/>\nput computer to sleep again<\/p>\n<p>Doggie duty done<br \/>\nsun high up in the sky<br \/>\nSitting down to open<br \/>\nmy computer once again<\/p>\n<p>Bells and whistles finished<br \/>\nall passwords entered well<br \/>\nHere comes my muse again<br \/>\nthe story starts to swell<\/p>\n<p>Telephone is ringing<br \/>\nbreaks my writers spell<br \/>\nMy oldest has a fever<br \/>\nhave to drive to school right now<\/p>\n<p>Doctor office, lab results<br \/>\nto the pharmacy we head<br \/>\nGo home and tuck her into bed<br \/>\nit\u2019s back to work I finally go<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open my computer<br \/>\npasswords entered file is opened<br \/>\nBegin to type the words flow then<br \/>\n\u201cMommy I\u2019m hungry again!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sit down early morning quiet time to write Words fill my mind fingers poised to type \u201cMommy, I\u2019m hungry!\u201d Words erased from memory computer goes to sleep time to take care of all my little peeps Breakfast is over dishes are done Slip back behind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142927","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\/795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142939,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142927\/revisions\/142939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}