{"id":47303,"date":"2019-06-22T10:35:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=47303"},"modified":"2019-06-22T14:02:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T18:02:57","slug":"ode-to-hakeem-olajuwon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/ode-to-hakeem-olajuwon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Hakeem Olajuwon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s something beautiful<br \/>\nAbout what he does out there<br \/>\nHow he tricks the defenders<br \/>\nAnd drives to the open basket<\/p>\n<p>His body appears to move in one direction<br \/>\nBut his mind has already sped past you<br \/>\nA twirl of the hand and he scores easily<br \/>\nHis gleaming smile is lost in camera flashes<\/p>\n<p>The arena is his hidden lair and here he practices and perfects his craft<br \/>\nHe flies in all directions and clouds the opposition\u2019s minds with terror<br \/>\nVillain to the Big Apple, but a savior and champion to those down South<br \/>\nA 7 feet tall, Nigerian immortal that is full of grace and style in execution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s something beautiful About what he does out there How he tricks the defenders And drives to the open basket His body appears to move in one direction But his mind has already sped past you A twirl of the hand and he scores easily&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1280,"featured_media":47328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47303","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\/1280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49672,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47303\/revisions\/49672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}