{"id":36516,"date":"2017-08-05T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=36516"},"modified":"2017-08-05T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:14:00","slug":"nine-a-plea-to-the-nine-muses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/nine-a-plea-to-the-nine-muses\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Nine &#8211; A Plea to the Nine Muses&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nine times I&#8217;ve watched the ancient, sacred hill,<br \/>\neach time with more determination than<br \/>\nbefore. I knew that if I would only stand<br \/>\nthere long enough, I&#8217;d see you come along.<br \/>\nBut mornings passed, then afternoons, and still,<br \/>\nthough I would praise your names, and praise again,<br \/>\nnothing stood upon that hill but grass, and<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s not why I was there. So, was I wrong?<\/p>\n<p>If I watch and believe, please, will you come<br \/>\nand speak to me in words of love, of lust,<br \/>\nof myth, of what you will? I&#8217;ve lost the sight<br \/>\nof you and without that, I&#8217;m stricken dumb.<\/p>\n<p>Calliope, Euterpe, Erato, must<br \/>\nall of my muses bathe in mortal light?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Nine times I&#8217;ve watched the ancient, sacred hill, each time with more determination than before. I knew that if I would only stand there long enough, I&#8217;d see you come along. But mornings passed, then afternoons, and still, though I would praise your names,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36516","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\/1052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36537,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36516\/revisions\/36537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}