{"id":39795,"date":"2017-08-05T23:30:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=39795"},"modified":"2017-08-05T23:30:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T03:30:46","slug":"retired-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/retired-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired   #8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Retired<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a bad night of bowling<\/p>\n<p>His Brunswick rolled out the door<\/p>\n<p>To be thrown off the Winooski Bridge<\/p>\n<p>Into the Lamoille River<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>There&#8217;s a lot of balls in that river<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He muttered still wearing the<\/p>\n<p>Red and tan triple X shirt<\/p>\n<p>Boasting <em>Iggy&#8217;s Piggy&#8217;s<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday nights now precarious<\/p>\n<p>Offering blue light danger<\/p>\n<p>Weaving from drink<\/p>\n<p>He knew it was time<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Leaving risk to younger men<\/p>\n<p>He stayed home watching the game<\/p>\n<p>Knowing he was done<\/p>\n<p>Being anyone&#8217;s teammate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired After a bad night of bowling His Brunswick rolled out the door To be thrown off the Winooski Bridge Into the Lamoille River &nbsp; There&#8217;s a lot of balls in that river He muttered still wearing the Red and tan triple X shirt Boasting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39795","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\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39832,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39795\/revisions\/39832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}