{"id":35216,"date":"2017-08-05T15:34:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=35216"},"modified":"2017-08-05T15:34:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:34:43","slug":"put-down-your-pencils-a-ghazal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/put-down-your-pencils-a-ghazal\/","title":{"rendered":"Put Down Your Pencils (a ghazal)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This poetry prompt prompted only a pout:<br \/>\nPurposefully vague, we&#8217;re to write from the inside out.<\/p>\n<p>Weep for us all, our president is a lout,<br \/>\nHe distracts me from writing from the inside out.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a con man, a creep, his daughter&#8217;s products he touts,<br \/>\nSuch corruption breeds leaks from the inside out.<\/p>\n<p>If only we had power, if poor people had clout,<br \/>\nI wouldn&#8217;t be writing from the inside out.<\/p>\n<p>In my dreams, they turn tail, their defeat is a rout,<br \/>\nPrison memoirs they write from the inside out.<\/p>\n<p>My conscience says, Sheila, abandon all doubt,<br \/>\nResist, do what&#8217;s right, from the inside out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poetry prompt prompted only a pout: Purposefully vague, we&#8217;re to write from the inside out. Weep for us all, our president is a lout, He distracts me from writing from the inside out. He&#8217;s a con man, a creep, his daughter&#8217;s products he touts,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35216","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\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35555,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35216\/revisions\/35555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}