{"id":41497,"date":"2017-08-06T04:16:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T08:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41497"},"modified":"2017-08-06T04:16:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T08:16:52","slug":"hour-20-on-a-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-20-on-a-wire\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 20: On a Wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a Wire<\/p>\n<p>Before the telegraph<br \/>\nStrung wires on poles<br \/>\nFrom coast to coast<br \/>\nWhere did birds gather<br \/>\nIn gossipy groups<br \/>\nSharing the news of the day?<br \/>\nThey cannot bask in the sun<br \/>\nOn branches heavy with leaves<br \/>\nNor gather in such groups<br \/>\nWhere sprigs and twigs<br \/>\nInterrupt the flow<br \/>\nAnd nothing on the prairie<br \/>\nProffered such a perch<br \/>\nAs we advance with satellites<br \/>\nAnd wireless technology<br \/>\nWill the birds be sad<br \/>\nTo see the neighborhood go?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a Wire Before the telegraph Strung wires on poles From coast to coast Where did birds gather In gossipy groups Sharing the news of the day? They cannot bask in the sun On branches heavy with leaves Nor gather in such groups Where sprigs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41497","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\/1047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41502,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41497\/revisions\/41502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}