{"id":34620,"date":"2017-08-05T14:16:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=34620"},"modified":"2017-08-05T14:16:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:16:35","slug":"hour-6-center-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-6-center-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 6-Center Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like clocks<\/p>\n<p>Or structure<\/p>\n<p>Or focusing on one thing<\/p>\n<p>For any length of time<\/p>\n<p>I like fingers to use all the keyboard<\/p>\n<p>And Pandas to pop the way I want<\/p>\n<p>The chessmen to move the way I prefer<\/p>\n<p>I like to be told I am beautiful<\/p>\n<p>Not issued a magazine how-to<\/p>\n<p>I stand alone in the focal point of my life<\/p>\n<p>I am center stage<\/p>\n<p>Belting out my own song<\/p>\n<p>Of rhythm and blues and grandiosity<\/p>\n<p>I will be off key<\/p>\n<p>I will trip as I dance<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s OK<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t tell me how to spend my minutes<\/p>\n<p>My hours<\/p>\n<p>My platitudes and attitudes<\/p>\n<p>Just sit back and watch<\/p>\n<p>Participate if you want<\/p>\n<p>But I am the director<\/p>\n<p>I run the show<\/p>\n<p>No one tells me what to do<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like clocks Or structure Or focusing on one thing For any length of time I like fingers to use all the keyboard And Pandas to pop the way I want The chessmen to move the way I prefer I like to be told&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34620","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34620"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34755,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34620\/revisions\/34755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}