{"id":23996,"date":"2016-08-13T20:02:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23996"},"modified":"2016-08-13T20:21:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:21:34","slug":"hour-eleven-beach-bum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hour-eleven-beach-bum\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Eleven: Beach Bum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beach Bum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They call me a bum.<\/p>\n<p><em>Don&#8217;t talk to the dirty bum, honey, he&#8217;ll never <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>leave us alone<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wake before the sun, shake the sand out of my blankets<\/p>\n<p>roll them up and tie them to my bike<\/p>\n<p>I stretch my arms to the shivering stars<\/p>\n<p>Breathe in the salty air<\/p>\n<p>Ride to the public sand shower and rinse my face and hands<\/p>\n<p>Heading back to the beach, I stop at the community garden<\/p>\n<p>where tomatoes and peppers are plentiful now<\/p>\n<p>pick a few each, leaving the rest for late risers<\/p>\n<p>I bait a hook with a cricket from the garden<\/p>\n<p>Cast out, sit watching my line bob in the<\/p>\n<p>ancient ocean rhythm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beach Bum &nbsp; They call me a bum. Don&#8217;t talk to the dirty bum, honey, he&#8217;ll never leave us alone &nbsp; I wake before the sun, shake the sand out of my blankets roll them up and tie them to my bike I stretch my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23996","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24326,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23996\/revisions\/24326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}