{"id":33986,"date":"2017-08-05T13:41:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=33986"},"modified":"2017-08-05T13:41:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:41:18","slug":"hour-5-soot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-5-soot\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 5&#8211;Soot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The smell I remember:<\/p>\n<p>It smelled like what it was<\/p>\n<p>a burned down bowling alley<\/p>\n<p>hauled to our end of town<\/p>\n<p>dumped at the edge of the swamp<\/p>\n<p>behind our grade school<\/p>\n<p>blackened possibilities<\/p>\n<p>bursting in all directions<\/p>\n<p>We scavenged like hungry avengers<\/p>\n<p>amazed at these abandoned treasures<\/p>\n<p>ours for the snatching<\/p>\n<p>Oh Fortune!<\/p>\n<p>Oh Providence!<\/p>\n<p>A crumpled candy machine<\/p>\n<p>full of melted goo<\/p>\n<p>yielded coins<\/p>\n<p>Bowling pins<\/p>\n<p>scorched<\/p>\n<p>Black balls<\/p>\n<p>valiant casualties<\/p>\n<p>Wonders unimaginable<\/p>\n<p>plastic in fantastic shapes<\/p>\n<p>A drinking fountain!<\/p>\n<p>We pulled out its electric motor and hauled it home<\/p>\n<p>It ran<\/p>\n<p>and once again<\/p>\n<p>a smidgen of<\/p>\n<p>Post Bowling alley<\/p>\n<p>came back to life<\/p>\n<p>humming<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smell I remember: It smelled like what it was a burned down bowling alley hauled to our end of town dumped at the edge of the swamp behind our grade school blackened possibilities bursting in all directions We scavenged like hungry avengers amazed at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33986","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\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34415,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33986\/revisions\/34415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}