{"id":18091,"date":"2016-08-13T09:58:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T13:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18091"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:28:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:28:04","slug":"hour-one-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hour-one-an-end\/","title":{"rendered":"HOUR ONE: THIS END"},"content":{"rendered":"

If ever there was a time, it is now <\/span><\/p>\n

If ever a wandering, it was then <\/span><\/p>\n

If I\u2019d known the heft, I might not have set out<\/span><\/p>\n

If I\u2019d known that weight and weightlessness would contend<\/span><\/p>\n

For a prime spot each dawn, wedged in my chest<\/span><\/p>\n

For the headliner, once wrapped in the sheets<\/span><\/p>\n

For the right to make a strange choice of dress<\/span><\/p>\n

For the chance to give or to withhold sleep <\/span><\/p>\n

So you ask me about the sorry end, <\/span><\/p>\n

So you ask about this end<\/span><\/p>\n

So you ask as the day fades, the light dims, <\/span><\/p>\n

So I say the words again<\/span><\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t get it right,<\/p>\n

day after day, night after night,<\/span><\/p>\n

We couldn\u2019t get it right, <\/span><\/p>\n

Year in, year out, crosshatching doubt <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If ever there was a time, it is now If ever a wandering, it was then If I\u2019d known the heft, I might not have set out If I\u2019d known that weight and weightlessness would contend For a prime spot each dawn, wedged in my…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":917,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18091","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\/917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18091"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28534,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18091\/revisions\/28534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}