{"id":41995,"date":"2017-08-06T05:39:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T09:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=41995"},"modified":"2017-08-06T05:39:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T09:39:18","slug":"the-elephant-in-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-elephant-in-the-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elephant in the Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silence fills the Courtroom<br \/>\nPregnant with expectation<br \/>\nThe question has been asked<br \/>\nEveryone poised, waiting<br \/>\nWaiting for the response.<\/p>\n<p>I swear, I take this solemn vow<br \/>\nEvery word I say is true<br \/>\nThough difficult to believe<br \/>\nBelieve it you must.<br \/>\nI speak nothing but the truth.<\/p>\n<p>My impulsiveness is well known<br \/>\nMy strength has been compared<br \/>\nTo that CrossFit beast of a guy.<br \/>\nFroning , I think is his name<br \/>\nI hear that he can lift elephants<\/p>\n<p>I heard it, that is a fact.<br \/>\nAs so I too can lift them<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not too hard to do.<br \/>\nYou can\u2019t just try it, off the cuff<br \/>\nYou must practice and take your time.<\/p>\n<p>Some shudder at the thought<br \/>\nWhile some just stop and stare<br \/>\nPlainly I will tell you this<br \/>\nSome of you won\u2019t even know<br \/>\nThe criminally sublime.<\/p>\n<p>The answer then is yes, of course<br \/>\nOf course this came to be<br \/>\nThe courtroom released its breath<br \/>\nAs I calmly picked up my elephant<br \/>\nAnd headed out the door,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silence fills the Courtroom Pregnant with expectation The question has been asked Everyone poised, waiting Waiting for the response. I swear, I take this solemn vow Every word I say is true Though difficult to believe Believe it you must. I speak nothing but the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441,5],"tags":[2691,680],"class_list":["post-41995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-hour21","tag-poetrymarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41995","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\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42001,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41995\/revisions\/42001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}