{"id":50200,"date":"2019-06-22T14:57:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T18:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=50200"},"modified":"2019-06-22T14:57:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T18:57:06","slug":"prompt-for-hour-six-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/prompt-for-hour-six-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt For Hour Six"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from there to here<br \/>\n__________________________<\/p>\n<p>yes, your fingers bled on the cotton<br \/>\nyou tripped over words like<br \/>\njello and jump<br \/>\na breathy silence beginning<br \/>\nyour father\u2019s name<br \/>\njesus \u2013 not the son of\u2026<br \/>\nbut more like that<br \/>\nother god: \u2018hey, zeus\u2019<\/p>\n<p>your friends were sent home<br \/>\nin the 50\u2019s while you stayed \u2013<br \/>\nwearing flour-sack dresses,<br \/>\neating tamales<br \/>\nand wondering<br \/>\nhow the future<br \/>\nwould look different<br \/>\nthan it did that day<\/p>\n<p>never expecting<br \/>\na repeat of history<br \/>\nmore blatant than<br \/>\nthe last and<br \/>\nwhile you wrestle<br \/>\nwith this new order<br \/>\nyour daughter writes poems<br \/>\nin a canadian city<\/p>\n<p>where she was born<br \/>\nwith snow angels<br \/>\nand hope<br \/>\nthe colour of<br \/>\nevery skin \u2013<br \/>\nyour people<br \/>\na story bigger<br \/>\nthan these words can hold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from there to here __________________________ yes, your fingers bled on the cotton you tripped over words like jello and jump a breathy silence beginning your father\u2019s name jesus \u2013 not the son of\u2026 but more like that other god: \u2018hey, zeus\u2019 your friends were sent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50200","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\/1004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50214,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50200\/revisions\/50214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}