{"id":24113,"date":"2016-08-13T19:50:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T23:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=24113"},"modified":"2016-08-13T19:50:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T23:50:25","slug":"prompt-11-intersection-folkie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/prompt-11-intersection-folkie\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 11: Intersection Folkie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I remembered a photo I took of this woman and put on Instagram, but I deleted the original shot. Please view the link, if possible, because her image inspired my following this prompt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/8yPvv1gfQA4jpmv5eF1giLmDJ-gwST0Xwf_Fg0\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/8yPvv1gfQA4jpmv5eF1giLmDJ-gwST0Xwf_Fg0\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s sun, I&#8217;m playing.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t matter where. I go where I know I can get some bread.<\/p>\n<p>Today it might be an intersection.<br \/>\nTomorrow, it might be some bar.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve never heard of half the places I&#8217;ve played.<br \/>\nAnd, you probably wouldn&#8217;t want to.<\/p>\n<p>My girlfriend hangs tough, man.<br \/>\nShe knew what she was getting herself into, believe me.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve had it rough, but she&#8217;s had it rougher.<\/p>\n<p>Some guys come up to her, ask her if<br \/>\nshe&#8217;s getting what she <em>needs<\/em>, you know.<br \/>\nAll macho put-on.<br \/>\nI quickly step in.<br \/>\n&#8220;Yes sir, and are you here to listen or to mess with someone?<br \/>\nBecause if it&#8217;s the latter, we will have a talk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s had it rough, but I&#8217;ll make it rougher<br \/>\nfor the person who tries to hurt her.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re in this part of town as long as it takes.<br \/>\nWhere are we going?<br \/>\nWhere aren&#8217;t we going? <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a Kansas fan, but, sometimes,<br \/>\n&#8220;Dust in the Wind&#8221; sounds like it fits.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll go wherever.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll play wherever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remembered a photo I took of this woman and put on Instagram, but I deleted the original shot. Please view the link, if possible, because her image inspired my following this prompt. https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/8yPvv1gfQA4jpmv5eF1giLmDJ-gwST0Xwf_Fg0\/ If there&#8217;s sun, I&#8217;m playing. Doesn&#8217;t matter where. I go where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24113","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24242,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24113\/revisions\/24242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}