{"id":18521,"date":"2016-08-13T10:33:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18521"},"modified":"2016-08-13T10:33:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:33:26","slug":"i-thought-i-was-playing-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/i-thought-i-was-playing-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"I Thought I was Playing Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone congratulated me on crossing the finishing line<\/p>\n<p>and I thought of death.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Years ago riding in a car wearing a bicycle helmut<\/p>\n<p>after a head injury<\/p>\n<p>I thought I had drove to work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, I thought I was playing baseball,<\/p>\n<p>that sport without a clock,<\/p>\n<p>where the endings are unpredictable,<\/p>\n<p>forgetting I am in race against time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In baseball, time can be<\/p>\n<p>stretched, extended, savored.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Time is fluid.<\/p>\n<p>Leisure is possible<\/p>\n<p>A poem can be written<\/p>\n<p>when you run out and<\/p>\n<p>I run in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are trying to stay alive,<\/p>\n<p>you and me,<\/p>\n<p>for as long as possible,<\/p>\n<p>maybe extra innings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our next finishing line<\/p>\n<p>is coming up fast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone congratulated me on crossing the finishing line and I thought of death. &nbsp; Years ago riding in a car wearing a bicycle helmut after a head injury I thought I had drove to work. &nbsp; Now, I thought I was playing baseball, that sport&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18521","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\/778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125297,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18521\/revisions\/125297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}