{"id":33186,"date":"2017-08-05T11:47:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=33186"},"modified":"2017-08-05T11:47:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:47:27","slug":"start-your-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/start-your-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"Start Your Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><\/p>\n<p>When there's a prompt that is entirely image-based, it'd be helpful for any blind or visually impaired participants to have a brief textual description of what is being shown in the photographs. An image called photo-1490823853387-09b84ca6227e doesn't make for a great jumping off point! So for this hour I've written an off-prompt piece, relating to participating in the Poetry Marathon 2017 :)<\/p>\n<p>This poem is inspired by NASCAR, which I didn't get chance to go to when I lived Stateside (though we drove past the Talladega circuit in Alabama quite frequently. I did go to a stock car racing event in Birmingham, AL, at which Emerson Fittipaldi's daughter started the race :)<\/p>\n<p><H1>Start Your Engines<\/h1>\n<p>Gentlemen, Start. Your. Engines.<br \/>\nPeople, pay attention.<\/p>\n<p>Mark your trail with rubber.<br \/>\nDigest your hourly prompt.<\/p>\n<p>Foot to the floor, round and round and round and round<br \/>\nPen to paper, finger to keyboard. Weave your words, dodge flying punctuation.<\/p>\n<p>Pitstop crew wipe bugs from the screen<br \/> <br \/>\nWipe sleep from your eyes<\/p>\n<p>Change the tires, fill up on petrol.<br \/> <br \/>\nDrink tea, coffee or absinthe.<\/p>\n<p>First hour down, only 3 more to go.<br \/>\nFirst hour down, only 24 to go.<\/p>\n<p>This poem is sponsored by Monster Energy,<br \/>\nAll proceeds to be donated to the 2017 Poetry Marathon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When there&#8217;s a prompt that is entirely image-based, it&#8217;d be helpful for any blind or visually impaired participants to have a brief textual description of what is being shown in the photographs. An image called photo-1490823853387-09b84ca6227e doesn&#8217;t make for a great jumping off point! So&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":964,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33186","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\/964"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33215,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33186\/revisions\/33215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}