{"id":18783,"date":"2016-08-13T10:57:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=18783"},"modified":"2016-08-13T10:58:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T14:58:59","slug":"relationally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/relationally\/","title":{"rendered":"Relationally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Childhood visits to our<br \/>\nneighborhood library mandated<br \/>\npilfering of free bookmarks<br \/>\none for each book seemed logical<br \/>\nnever remembering that I<br \/>\nreturned only the books<\/p>\n<p>varietal bookmarks littered<br \/>\nmy bookshelves, then desk drawers<br \/>\na dedicated few made it into,<br \/>\nstayed within the confines of a book<br \/>\npermanence assured though<br \/>\nlogic of placement rarely survived<br \/>\nrelationships with stories, others<br \/>\nthere were always new takes<br \/>\nto be read, placed in \u2018used\u2019 bins<\/p>\n<p>even though marking my spot<br \/>\nmeant\u00a0 I could go back I rarely did<br \/>\npreferring plowing-through to<br \/>\nreview, remember, reconsider<br \/>\nvoraciously rumbling through<br \/>\nfact, fiction, poetry and muses<\/p>\n<p>early technology encouraged<br \/>\nbookmarking pertinent WWW locales<br \/>\nbut my pattern held; onward, done<br \/>\nnot going back there on purpose<br \/>\nfrequently asking why I was<br \/>\never there to begin with<br \/>\nwhat really caught my eye at the time<\/p>\n<p>now there they\u00a0sit in the dusty stacks,<br \/>\nno bookmarks protrude<br \/>\nand only when a book is pulled<br \/>\nfrom the shelf do I realize<br \/>\nthat I long ago<\/p>\n<p>eschewed bookmarks<br \/>\nand simply started to<br \/>\ndog-ear the select pages<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8211; Mark L. Lucker<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2016<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Childhood visits to our neighborhood library mandated pilfering of free bookmarks one for each book seemed logical never remembering that I returned only the books varietal bookmarks littered my bookshelves, then desk drawers a dedicated few made it into, stayed within the confines of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,1],"tags":[406,1315],"class_list":["post-18783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-uncategorized","tag-prompt-2","tag-second-hour-prompt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18783","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18828,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18783\/revisions\/18828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}