{"id":49655,"date":"2019-06-22T14:02:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T18:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49655"},"modified":"2019-06-22T17:16:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:16:47","slug":"random-prompt-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/random-prompt-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Prompt\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hunky armed men in heavy boots<br \/>\nCarried their shovels like rifles.<\/p>\n<p>They were the finest workers<br \/>\nThe municipality could afford.<\/p>\n<p>Through the dust could be seen<br \/>\nThe outline of the last &#8217;70s piano bar,<br \/>\nThe dusty ferns and jars of outdated antipasta<br \/>\nWaiting secondary demolishment.<\/p>\n<p>At night, their lanterns<br \/>\nWere viewable for up to five city blocks.<\/p>\n<p>And, next morning, the day crew returned<br \/>\nTo clear more detritus of a decade<br \/>\nOf how politics got done.<\/p>\n<p>(Note: this is my fifth hour poem, but my phone got wacky and I had to restart.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunky armed men in heavy boots Carried their shovels like rifles. They were the finest workers The municipality could afford. Through the dust could be seen The outline of the last &#8217;70s piano bar, The dusty ferns and jars of outdated antipasta Waiting secondary demolishment&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49655","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49655"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51554,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49655\/revisions\/51554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}