{"id":33726,"date":"2017-08-05T12:43:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T16:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=33726"},"modified":"2017-08-05T14:25:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:25:04","slug":"the-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-box\/","title":{"rendered":"The Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was once a little box<br \/>\nfilled with specially imported chocolates.<br \/>\nThen \u2014 wafer, chunk, wedge and sliver \u2014<br \/>\neaten, and the box sat coated with dust.<\/p>\n<p>Once, too, there was an orange,<br \/>\nthe last one of a basketful.<br \/>\nAs it aged there alone, it darkened,<br \/>\nas though filled with chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>But of course it wasn\u2019t. Seriously.<br \/>\nIt was thrown out. The box, however,<br \/>\ngathered dust on the shelf because<br \/>\nof the wafers and slivers of memory<\/p>\n<p>it contained. This is supposedly<br \/>\nthe truth \u2014 each word \u2014 what<br \/>\nis cherished can be kept neatly<br \/>\nin just a dusty little box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was once a little box filled with specially imported chocolates. Then \u2014 wafer, chunk, wedge and sliver \u2014 eaten, and the box sat coated with dust. Once, too, there was an orange, the last one of a basketful. As it aged there alone, it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33726","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\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33726"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34489,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33726\/revisions\/34489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}