{"id":42198,"date":"2017-08-06T06:31:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T10:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=42198"},"modified":"2017-08-06T10:29:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T14:29:46","slug":"ole-flamenco-dancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/ole-flamenco-dancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ol\u00e9 Flamenco Dancer (22nd hour)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carmen waits for the guitarist to strum and pluck<\/p>\n<p>While the other dancers sit<\/p>\n<p>Clap<\/p>\n<p>Stomp in unison<\/p>\n<p>The singer wails *con tanto pasion<\/p>\n<p>Egging Carmen on<\/p>\n<p>To slam her feet on the platform<\/p>\n<p>As she raises her left hand in the air with her fan in her right hand<\/p>\n<p>She struts her fan open and waves her arms about to the singer&#8217;s moans<\/p>\n<p>Carmen thrusts her body to and fro<\/p>\n<p>Spins from one corner to the other<\/p>\n<p>Contorts her body into a modelesque stance<\/p>\n<p>Her dress seems to be made of wind and flames<\/p>\n<p>Twirling her skirt open like a rose<\/p>\n<p>Whirling her hand and fan wildly around the air above her head<\/p>\n<p>And in one final pitched cry<\/p>\n<p>In one final strum<\/p>\n<p>One final pluck<\/p>\n<p>Final stomp<\/p>\n<p>She gently but forcibly moves her arms back to her sides<\/p>\n<p>Closing the rose to rest<\/p>\n<p>And back up again<\/p>\n<p>Beautifully frozen<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*is spanish for &#8220;with lots of passion&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carmen waits for the guitarist to strum and pluck While the other dancers sit Clap Stomp in unison The singer wails *con tanto pasion Egging Carmen on To slam her feet on the platform As she raises her left hand in the air with her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42198","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\/1120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43368,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42198\/revisions\/43368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}