{"id":35231,"date":"2017-08-05T15:09:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=35231"},"modified":"2017-08-05T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T19:09:08","slug":"three-timed-stanzas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/three-timed-stanzas\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Timed Stanzas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I. 60 Seconds<br \/>\nThe neighbor\u2019s circular saw<br \/>\nfills the humid summer afternoon<br \/>\nwith the incessant sound<br \/>\nof buzzing<\/p>\n<p>II. 90 Seconds<br \/>\nWhen we were children<br \/>\nwe would put our swimsuits on<br \/>\nunder our shorts and t-shirts<br \/>\nput a beach towel in a bag<br \/>\nride our bikes the mile<br \/>\nthrough city streets<br \/>\nto the beach on the bay<br \/>\nlay slathered in baby oil<br \/>\nfell asleep in the sun<br \/>\nswam to cool our burning skin<br \/>\nrode home again when the<br \/>\nshadows told us<br \/>\nit was time for supper<\/p>\n<p>III. 120 Seconds<br \/>\nWe rode our bikes<br \/>\nto the candy store<br \/>\nbought penny candies<br \/>\nby the handful<br \/>\ncarefully counted out<br \/>\nhow many blackjacks and mary janes<br \/>\nand butterscotch disks<br \/>\nwe could afford<br \/>\nwhile the old man watched<br \/>\nfrom behind the counter<br \/>\nnever once smiling<br \/>\nnever once telling us thanks<br \/>\nfor our business<br \/>\nas if having penny candies was<br \/>\nsomehow beneath him<br \/>\nyet it was his shop<br \/>\nhis orders every month<br \/>\nthat kept us coming back<br \/>\nagain and again and again<br \/>\nto count our pennies<br \/>\nin the candy aisle.<\/p>\n<p>[Prompt 6]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I. 60 Seconds The neighbor\u2019s circular saw fills the humid summer afternoon with the incessant sound of buzzing II. 90 Seconds When we were children we would put our swimsuits on under our shorts and t-shirts put a beach towel in a bag ride our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35231","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\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35247,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35231\/revisions\/35247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}