{"id":23001,"date":"2016-08-13T17:52:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23001"},"modified":"2016-08-13T20:53:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:53:21","slug":"in-a-hurry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/in-a-hurry-2\/","title":{"rendered":"In a Hurry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22946\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PoetryMartathon_Prompt9-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"PoetryMartathon_Prompt9\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PoetryMartathon_Prompt9-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PoetryMartathon_Prompt9-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PoetryMartathon_Prompt9-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PoetryMartathon_Prompt9-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/PoetryMartathon_Prompt9.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0 It was the top-most window on the left building<\/p>\n<p>close to the inside corner, but it&#8217;s shut now.<\/p>\n<p>The day was just as grey as pictured,<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it was sprinkling lightly.<\/p>\n<p>You could hear people arguing over taxis,<\/p>\n<p>and running to those who stopped.<\/p>\n<p>He was in a hurry to get somewhere, but<\/p>\n<p>there was nothing he could do.<\/p>\n<p>He hit the glass frontal twice and<\/p>\n<p>did not die on impact.<\/p>\n<p>I watched him pass my window<\/p>\n<p>wondering what could possibly<\/p>\n<p>have been so wrong with his life<\/p>\n<p>that two broken legs could charm away.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 It was the top-most window on the left building close to the inside corner, but it&#8217;s shut now. The day was just as grey as pictured, In fact, it was sprinkling lightly. You could hear people arguing over taxis, and running to those who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":827,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1136],"tags":[695],"class_list":["post-23001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","tag-695"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23001","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\/827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23203,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23001\/revisions\/23203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}