{"id":46076,"date":"2019-06-22T07:22:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T11:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=46076"},"modified":"2020-06-28T18:58:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T22:58:14","slug":"ill-take-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/ill-take-next\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Take Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/autumnsonlyone\/first-hour\/\">First Hour<\/a><\/pre>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">I&#8217;ll Take Next!<\/h3>\n<pre>I've come to the end of another career,\r\nno commendations,golden handshakes,\r\ncelebrations or cheers.\r\nNo one grabbed and hugged you,\r\nor said, \"I'm glad you were here!\"\r\n\r\nThe hard work I did - forgotten,\r\nreplacements already assigned,\r\ntenured but not weathered,\r\nbut they changed their mind.\r\n\"We'll get more bank for the buck\r\nthey said,\r\nwhen we change the design.\"\r\n\r\nWhere will I go?\r\nWhat will I do?\r\nThey just sent a \"pink\" slip,\r\nbut down the stairs, I just tripped.\r\nProtecting my flock from \r\nthat which was cruel.\r\n\r\nThe endless sleepless nights\r\ncreating miracles,\r\nnot always knowing what to do.\r\nI'm worthy of my calling,\r\nspending too much \r\nblood, sweat and tears\r\nteaching school!\r\n\r\nI heeded the call,\r\nI wrote reform to revise the text.\r\nUnappreciated, cast aside, underpaid\r\nand recommendations stalled,\r\nGod knows I did my best!\r\nWhatever He has for me...\r\nI'll take next.                                                                                                      \r\n<\/pre>\n<pre style=\"text-align: center\">Compton, CA\r\nJune 22, 2019 @7:22<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; First Hour I&#8217;ll Take Next! I&#8217;ve come to the end of another career, no commendations,golden handshakes, celebrations or cheers. No one grabbed and hugged you, or said, &#8220;I&#8217;m glad you were here!&#8221; The hard work I did &#8211; forgotten, replacements already assigned, tenured but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46076","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\/1186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46076"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59692,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46076\/revisions\/59692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}