{"id":36328,"date":"2017-08-05T17:04:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=36328"},"modified":"2017-08-05T17:04:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:04:31","slug":"prompt-eight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/prompt-eight-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moving Day<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 End of the month and it<br \/>\nis raining. The truck we booked is<br \/>\nlate and the house, a dangerous<br \/>\nmess of life, packed in boxes to<br \/>\ntrip over. So, we slow the pace, nestle together on the veranda and read<br \/>\nAesop\u2019s fables, choosing his words, over the daily newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>With thanks to Margaret Atwood for her brilliant poem,<br \/>\n\u201cIt is Dangerous to Read Newspapers\u201d<br \/>\n(this line also appears in the body of the poem)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving Day \u2013 End of the month and it is raining. The truck we booked is late and the house, a dangerous mess of life, packed in boxes to trip over. So, we slow the pace, nestle together on the veranda and read Aesop\u2019s fables,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36328","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\/1004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36431,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36328\/revisions\/36431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}