{"id":4484,"date":"2014-08-24T08:16:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T12:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2014-08-24T08:16:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T12:16:19","slug":"ode-to-a-sonnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/ode-to-a-sonnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to a Sonnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shakespeare wrote sonnets<\/p>\n<p>High School English teachers assign sonnets<\/p>\n<p>College kids may memorize devotional sonnets<\/p>\n<p>Grad students pontificate upon sonnets<\/p>\n<p>Poets ponder publishing pleasing books with sonnets<\/p>\n<p>I do not write sonnets<\/p>\n<p>I do not need 14 lines of rhythm and rhyme<\/p>\n<p>imposing structure and discipline<\/p>\n<p>Beauty, love, death, deception, adventure, nature, good, evil, truth<\/p>\n<p>They conform to nothing<\/p>\n<p>Give me free verse or give me death!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shakespeare wrote sonnets High School English teachers assign sonnets College kids may memorize devotional sonnets Grad students pontificate upon sonnets Poets ponder publishing pleasing books with sonnets I do not write sonnets I do not need 14 lines of rhythm and rhyme imposing structure and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-4484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-hour-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484","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\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4505,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions\/4505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}