{"id":50563,"date":"2019-06-22T15:34:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=50563"},"modified":"2019-06-22T15:34:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:34:16","slug":"2019-seven-im-not-really-don-quixote-not-really-a-reminder-sonnet-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/2019-seven-im-not-really-don-quixote-not-really-a-reminder-sonnet-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 &#8211; Seven &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m Not Really Don Quixote. Not Really.&#8221; A Reminder Sonnet for . . . Me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a man who tilts at old windmills.<br \/>\nWhere I was raised a windmill means I&#8217;m home.<br \/>\nI do own armor, but it&#8217;s clean and bright.<br \/>\nI only wear it out for festive days.<br \/>\nI have no broken-down old nag that spills<br \/>\nme off into the dust. And unlike some,<br \/>\nno comic sidekick, wiser by a sight,<br \/>\nstrides beside me through all my forays.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t live like the Don, though I am told<br \/>\nthe differences aren&#8217;t always there to spot.<br \/>\nMy honor and true love leave me star-crossed<br \/>\nA mad, old-fashioned chivalric. And bold.<\/p>\n<p>I follow, though, in this. For years I&#8217;ve sought<br \/>\nDulcinea, who Quixote&#8217;d lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a man who tilts at old windmills. Where I was raised a windmill means I&#8217;m home. I do own armor, but it&#8217;s clean and bright. I only wear it out for festive days. I have no broken-down old nag that spills me off&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50563","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\/1052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50571,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50563\/revisions\/50571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}