{"id":32909,"date":"2017-08-05T11:22:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=32909"},"modified":"2017-08-05T11:22:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:22:01","slug":"hour-3-hanging-the-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-3-hanging-the-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 3: hanging the lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>hanging the lights<\/p>\n<p>shivering in the snow<br \/>\nI hold one end<br \/>\nof a long string of<br \/>\nmulti-colored lights<br \/>\na queue of gems<br \/>\nthey reach from me<br \/>\nto my brother<br \/>\nstanding on the ladder<\/p>\n<p>the cold doesn\u2019t<br \/>\nseem to bother him<br \/>\nnor the height<br \/>\nnor the precariousness<br \/>\nas he reaches out<br \/>\nalong the eves<br \/>\nand hooks the lights<br \/>\non timeworn nails<\/p>\n<p>he likes the doing of it<br \/>\nthe job, the task<br \/>\nbut seems not to care<br \/>\nfor the result<br \/>\nI like the effect<br \/>\nof the house lit up<br \/>\ncheery<br \/>\non a cold winter\u2019s night<\/p>\n<p>together<br \/>\nthe laborer and the poet<br \/>\nwe construct<br \/>\na Christmas vision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hanging the lights shivering in the snow I hold one end of a long string of multi-colored lights a queue of gems they reach from me to my brother standing on the ladder the cold doesn\u2019t seem to bother him nor the height nor the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32909","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\/1047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32937,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32909\/revisions\/32937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}