{"id":38460,"date":"2017-08-05T20:28:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=38460"},"modified":"2017-08-05T20:28:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:28:19","slug":"countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/countdown\/","title":{"rendered":"countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>white smoke of Canaveral<\/p>\n<p>curling towards visionary space<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>blindfolded, she went 20 to zero,<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;fore seeking our hides.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>anticipation of Old Faithful<\/p>\n<p>Yellowstone\u2019s sulfur-up-your-nose.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Guy Lombardo New Year\u2019s eve \u2013<\/p>\n<p>champagne glasses tilted high.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>on your mark, get set, and Olympic sprinters<\/p>\n<p>loosed<\/p>\n<p>like starlings over the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bottles of beer we took down<\/p>\n<p>and passed around\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Horses are at the Gate<\/em>,<\/p>\n<p>sweaty tickets in palms,<\/p>\n<p>silken jockeys praying<\/p>\n<p>bottoms-up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the 2-minute warning,<\/p>\n<p>time to grab your last snack<\/p>\n<p>before the Oakland Raiders<\/p>\n<p>give you another heart attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>white smoke of Canaveral curling towards visionary space &nbsp; blindfolded, she went 20 to zero, &#8216;fore seeking our hides. &nbsp; anticipation of Old Faithful Yellowstone\u2019s sulfur-up-your-nose. &nbsp; Guy Lombardo New Year\u2019s eve \u2013 champagne glasses tilted high. &nbsp; on your mark, get set, and Olympic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38460","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\/1130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38538,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38460\/revisions\/38538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}