{"id":31727,"date":"2017-08-05T09:45:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=31727"},"modified":"2017-08-05T09:45:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:45:15","slug":"what-i-didnt-do-during-my-first-year-of-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/what-i-didnt-do-during-my-first-year-of-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Didn&#8217;t Do During My First Year of Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grow our my hair and beard<br \/>\nand parade up and down Holly St weekly<br \/>\nin neon colored tunics<br \/>\ncarrying a sign warning about the coming apocalypse<\/p>\n<p>Memorize Robert Pinsky&#8217;s volume of poems to read aloud<br \/>\nand go to the torn down mills site<br \/>\nreciting them weekly in a voice that vibrates with<br \/>\nthe gulls and rusting rocket-like silos<\/p>\n<p>Go to every major league ballpark<br \/>\nand stay long enough to sit through the national anthem<br \/>\nwhile carrying a sign with a quote by Borges<br \/>\n&#8220;poets, like the blind, can see in the dark&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Open up a small bookstore in an out-of-the-way basement office space<br \/>\nand change weekly the order of<br \/>\nhow the publications merge in various piles<br \/>\nof animal sculptures<\/p>\n<p>Reduce my what will I do list<br \/>\nand cross off the penultimate possibility<br \/>\nleaving a final and ultimate descriptor<br \/>\nof how I will spend my time until the last line is erased<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grow our my hair and beard and parade up and down Holly St weekly in neon colored tunics carrying a sign warning about the coming apocalypse Memorize Robert Pinsky&#8217;s volume of poems to read aloud and go to the torn down mills site reciting them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31727","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\/778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31892,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31727\/revisions\/31892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}