{"id":31787,"date":"2017-08-05T09:36:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=31787"},"modified":"2017-08-05T09:36:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T13:36:51","slug":"do-you-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/do-you-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The summer we listened to<br \/>\nEarth, Wind &amp; Fire on the radio<br \/>\ntoo young to understand<br \/>\nsuch lyrics of love<br \/>\ninstead drawn to those<br \/>\ngroovy African-inspired costumes<br \/>\nflashy bellbottomed pants<br \/>\nMaurice White\u2019s hipswangin&#8217; swagger<br \/>\nthe ridiculousness of lyrics<br \/>\nthat rang off our tongues<br \/>\n<em>Ba de ya &#8211; say do you remember<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Ba de ya &#8211; dancing in September<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Ba duda, ba duda, ba duda, badu<\/em><br \/>\nhow we danced and grooved and spun<br \/>\njamming to the transistor radio turned up<br \/>\nfull blast in the back yard<br \/>\ntook breaks to gulp ice cold water<br \/>\nfrom the garden hose<br \/>\nthen back to the step, the dance, the groove<br \/>\nEarth, Wind &amp; Fire<\/p>\n<p>[Prompt:\u00a0Write a poem in which the four elements (Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water) play an important part.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summer we listened to Earth, Wind &amp; Fire on the radio too young to understand such lyrics of love instead drawn to those groovy African-inspired costumes flashy bellbottomed pants Maurice White\u2019s hipswangin&#8217; swagger the ridiculousness of lyrics that rang off our tongues Ba de&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31787","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\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31810,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31787\/revisions\/31810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}