{"id":23480,"date":"2016-08-13T18:21:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23480"},"modified":"2016-08-13T18:21:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:21:25","slug":"ode-to-opus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/ode-to-opus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Opus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There is a little flightless bird that lives in my paper.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He has many friends and gets into many capers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He has a perpetual tuxedo complete with bow tie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And he takes me back to a time when all was right.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>His laughter and tears parallel mine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He follows my life as if by design.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Although he is really just a drawing on paper, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He brings me joy in knowing he is forever.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>His attitude never changes, he always sees<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The brighter, greener side of the street.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Most important of all, when I look at him<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am with those I lost all over again.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ode to Opus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>August 13, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a little flightless bird that lives in my paper. He has many friends and gets into many capers. He has a perpetual tuxedo complete with bow tie And he takes me back to a time when all was right. His laughter and tears&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[169,1739,1740,1738],"class_list":["post-23480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-hour-10","tag-odes","tag-opus-the-penguin","tag-praise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23480","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\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23492,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23480\/revisions\/23492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}