{"id":21440,"date":"2016-08-13T14:59:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21440"},"modified":"2016-08-13T14:59:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T18:59:47","slug":"poem-3-basic-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/poem-3-basic-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 3- &#8220;Basic&#8221; Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written on the road as I clearly struggled for inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have been traveling a lot lately<\/p>\n<p>To ancient Roman baths, birthplaces of poets and colleges that look more like monuments<\/p>\n<p>Hiking up the Scottish highlands<\/p>\n<p>And enviously admiring the crown jewels<\/p>\n<p>Rushing through towns, lanes, bylanes<\/p>\n<p>The typical tourist<\/p>\n<p>Fascinated by everything<\/p>\n<p>But afraid that I&#8217;ll miss my bus<\/p>\n<p>to the next destination on my checklist<\/p>\n<p>And in this mad rush<\/p>\n<p>Through new sights and sounds and smells<\/p>\n<p>The only thing I crave is<\/p>\n<p>A hot cup of Starbucks<\/p>\n<p>Skim latte, 12oz, no sugar<\/p>\n<p>A basic desire<\/p>\n<p>Overlooked in the heat of the moment<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yet remembered remorsefully after<\/p>\n<p>As I struggle to write coherent verse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written on the road as I clearly struggled for inspiration. &nbsp; I have been traveling a lot lately To ancient Roman baths, birthplaces of poets and colleges that look more like monuments Hiking up the Scottish highlands And enviously admiring the crown jewels Rushing through&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21440","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\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21466,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21440\/revisions\/21466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}