{"id":37970,"date":"2017-08-05T20:52:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37970"},"modified":"2017-08-05T20:52:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:52:42","slug":"hour-twelve-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-twelve-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Twelve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred words<br \/>\nto grace a page<br \/>\nrequiring wordsmiths<br \/>\nto count seems<br \/>\nrisky, even<br \/>\nfor marathon poets<br \/>\nwho trudge through<br \/>\nwhen sinking<br \/>\nin uninspired quick sand. 25<\/p>\n<p>Better to ask a bird<br \/>\nto quiet her song,<br \/>\na fish to hold its breath,<br \/>\nor a bear to whisper<br \/>\na bedtime story. 41<\/p>\n<p>Easier to find a leprechaun<br \/>\ncounting gold at the end<br \/>\nof a solid orange rainbow,<br \/>\nor a mermaid skiing<br \/>\non snow banks in Africa.57<\/p>\n<p>Easier even to plea<br \/>\nfor pardon from scorned lover,<br \/>\na stoic judge,<br \/>\nor grandma on a rainy day<br \/>\nwhen kids crowd around feet<br \/>\nunable to go outside and play. 73<\/p>\n<p>Still I type and count,<br \/>\ntype and count, disregarding<br \/>\nthe credibility of the muse<br \/>\nperched upon my shoulder<br \/>\nwhispering in my ear.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty-eight and counting<br \/>\nwith the clack<br \/>\nclack<br \/>\nclack<br \/>\nof keys<br \/>\nspilling letters<br \/>\non this page<br \/>\nuntil they reach<br \/>\ncompletion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred words to grace a page requiring wordsmiths to count seems risky, even for marathon poets who trudge through when sinking in uninspired quick sand. 25 Better to ask a bird to quiet her song, a fish to hold its breath, or a bear&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":822,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37970","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\/822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38754,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37970\/revisions\/38754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}