{"id":18249,"date":"2016-08-13T10:35:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18249"},"modified":"2016-08-13T10:39:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:39:37","slug":"my-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/my-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"My Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>write about the block.<\/p>\n<p>first poem at ten,<\/p>\n<p>my grandfather died,<\/p>\n<p>discovered Walt Whitman.<\/p>\n<p>high school teacher of American lit,<\/p>\n<p>my grandparent&#8217;s generation<\/p>\n<p>teacher had a crush on<\/p>\n<p>my grandmother<\/p>\n<p>when they were young<\/p>\n<p>she did not feel the same.<\/p>\n<p>still he trusted these three,<\/p>\n<p>Walt Whitman,<\/p>\n<p>Emily Dickinson,<\/p>\n<p>Edgar Allan Poe.<\/p>\n<p>we memorized the<\/p>\n<p>transcendentalists,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;he had a Roman nose&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the last leaf upon the tree&#8221;,<\/p>\n<p>learned the Gettysburg address<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;four score and seven years ago&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I, too, don&#8217;t like it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>grandma and grandpa<\/p>\n<p>grew tulips and roses,<\/p>\n<p>lilac trees in the backyard.<\/p>\n<p>vegetables, too flourished<\/p>\n<p>rows of corn, parsley patch,<\/p>\n<p>tomatoes, rhubarb, two<\/p>\n<p>vines of grapes,<\/p>\n<p>white and purple<\/p>\n<p>I have no green thumb.<\/p>\n<p>not even a poet&#8217;s thumb.<\/p>\n<p>I have a poet&#8217;s block<\/p>\n<p>followed by mourning love.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>write about the block. first poem at ten, my grandfather died, discovered Walt Whitman. high school teacher of American lit, my grandparent&#8217;s generation teacher had a crush on my grandmother when they were young she did not feel the same. still he trusted these three,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18249","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\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18651,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18249\/revisions\/18651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}