{"id":143388,"date":"2023-09-03T08:21:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=143388"},"modified":"2023-09-03T08:21:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:21:45","slug":"crossing-the-finish-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/crossing-the-finish-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the Finish Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is hope more of a wish or a prayer?<br \/>\nDoes it have to do with string?<br \/>\nIs it a goal or objective or song?<br \/>\nOr just some everyday thing?<\/p>\n<p>Does hope spring eternal as the poem says<br \/>\nor perhaps the poems are just mush<br \/>\nI&#8217;d like to spend some time thinking of Hope<br \/>\nBut I fear I&#8217;m in quite a rush.<\/p>\n<p>You see, this is the poem at the end of the line<br \/>\nthe line is the day oh, so long<br \/>\nI wish you well and hope many things<br \/>\nNone to be construed as wrong<\/p>\n<p>The marathon took twenty-four hours this time<br \/>\nIt does every year, yes, that is true<br \/>\nYour successful completion is what you achieved<br \/>\nAt least that is my hope for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is hope more of a wish or a prayer? Does it have to do with string? Is it a goal or objective or song? Or just some everyday thing? Does hope spring eternal as the poem says or perhaps the poems are just mush I&#8217;d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[2733],"class_list":["post-143388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-hour24"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143388","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\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143583,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143388\/revisions\/143583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}