{"id":50481,"date":"2019-06-22T15:43:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=50481"},"modified":"2019-06-22T15:43:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:43:12","slug":"maybe-a-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/maybe-a-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe a Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>We cast a spell\r\nto protect us from unkindness\r\nand people who adore celebrities.\r\n\u201cI wish our spell included \r\nprotection against houseflies.\u201d\r\nI mutter, waving them off to pester another.\r\nSilently and to myself, I warn the fly.\r\nI don\u2019t want to kill you,\r\nBut I won\u2019t lose sleep over it.\r\n\u201dThe song isn\u2019t that bad,\u201d \r\nGently intrudes on my unspoken threats.\r\n\u201dNo.\u201d I agree. \r\nWorking on appreciation,\r\nacceptance and the ukulele.\r\nAnticipating chords changes.\r\nBeing lulled by the calm melody.\r\nI picture the song\u2019s placement\r\nsomewhere with Bon Iver\r\nAnd \u201cSomebody I used to know.\u201d \r\nSort of sad, \r\nSort of sweet.\r\nIt\u2019s a really good drawing,\r\nThe dog on the cover, I mean.\r\nAnd I\u2019m not criticizing.\r\nMaybe it is a cover. \r\nWhen at first I listened,\r\nI thought it\r\nSome kind of fish.\r\nThe drawing I mean.\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We cast a spell to protect us from unkindness and people who adore celebrities. \u201cI wish our spell included protection against houseflies.\u201d I mutter, waving them off to pester another. Silently and to myself, I warn the fly. I don\u2019t want to kill you, But&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[2293],"class_list":["post-50481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","tag-hour7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50481","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\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50642,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50481\/revisions\/50642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}