{"id":34216,"date":"2017-08-05T13:23:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=34216"},"modified":"2017-08-05T13:23:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:23:55","slug":"the-basement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-basement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Basement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The basement was a refuge,<br \/>\nA place to play hide and seek.<br \/>\nIn hot summer months, the cool concrete,<br \/>\nGranted us sweet relief.<\/p>\n<p>The piano was old and out of tune,<br \/>\nYou could still plunk many a melody.<br \/>\nThe four square marks by masking tape,<br \/>\nMade for game that were unique.<\/p>\n<p>When the storm sirens would blow,<br \/>\nThe basement would shelter us,<br \/>\nBeneath the stairs we would stay.<br \/>\nThe sleeping bags for camping out,<br \/>\nIndoors where we would play.<\/p>\n<p>Laundry was done in the basement,<br \/>\nDad&#8217;s tools lined the workbench wall.<br \/>\nStorage of suitcases, old photographs,<br \/>\nBaby clothes from our first days.<\/p>\n<p>The basement was for us many things,<br \/>\nA memory not gone away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The basement was a refuge, A place to play hide and seek. In hot summer months, the cool concrete, Granted us sweet relief. The piano was old and out of tune, You could still plunk many a melody. The four square marks by masking tape,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34216","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\/1030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34220,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34216\/revisions\/34220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}