{"id":22128,"date":"2016-08-13T16:32:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=22128"},"modified":"2016-08-13T16:33:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:33:40","slug":"vii-have-you-met-my-friend-proust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/vii-have-you-met-my-friend-proust\/","title":{"rendered":"VII. Have You Met My Friend, Proust?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"typewriter\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Proust was a man of many words.
\nIf you could say it in five,
\nHe’d say the same thing in\u00a050,
\nand I loved every line.<\/p>\n

So often, I find myself
\nstaring at the empty page
\nseeing a polar bear
\nin a blizzard\u00a0eating snow.<\/p>\n

My words become
\nLightning bugs
\nSignaling in the night;
\nonly to disappear
\nas I draw close –
\ntwisting\u00a0my ankles
\non the roots of despair.<\/p>\n

Hats off to you, Marcel.
\nIt took you 54 pages
\nto give your mother
\na kiss goodnight and
\nIt took me 30 years to read
\nRemembrances of Things Past.<\/p>\n

I suppose somewhere in
\nthe Universe, that makes us
\nEven Steven.<\/p>\n

Just one thing before you go
\nback on the shelf–:
\nMay I borrow your pen?<\/p>\n

Art: Typewriter; Country Music Hall of Fame, Nashville, Tennessee 2015 by Virginia Galfo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Proust was a man of many words. If you could say it in five, He’d say the same thing in\u00a050, and I loved every line. So often, I find myself staring at the empty page seeing a polar bear in a blizzard\u00a0eating snow. My…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":708,"featured_media":22304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1641,10,1084],"class_list":["post-22128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-marcel-proust","tag-poetry","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22128","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\/708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22395,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22128\/revisions\/22395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}