{"id":51993,"date":"2019-06-22T18:36:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T22:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=51993"},"modified":"2019-06-22T18:36:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T22:36:44","slug":"hard-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/hard-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Luck!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Night has fallen, not one Moonbeam can pierce the fog,<\/p>\n<p>That has slowly closed in around me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had my fishing pole off the shelf for awhile now,<\/p>\n<p>Surely something will bite,<\/p>\n<p>For my line has been in the water for what seems like an eternity!<\/p>\n<p>Enjoying the last of my hot coffee<\/p>\n<p>Out of my canteen, as coyotes howl into the night.<\/p>\n<p>All is still now, as a hush falls across the mighty fir trees,<\/p>\n<p>that surround this massive Lake<\/p>\n<p>Waves almost lull \u00a0me to sleep as they lap to shore with ease.<\/p>\n<p>Guess I might pack it in as this is going pretty slow.<\/p>\n<p>the only bites I&#8217;m getting are from the hungry swarm of damn mosquitoes!<\/p>\n<p>Oh for Pete&#8217;s sake, got my sock wet as I slipped off my rock.<\/p>\n<p>Walking back in the misty darkness my pained voice echoes to and fro.<\/p>\n<p>For i have managed to stub my toe on the concrete dock!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;M DONE!!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Night has fallen, not one Moonbeam can pierce the fog, That has slowly closed in around me. I&#8217;ve had my fishing pole off the shelf for awhile now, Surely something will bite, For my line has been in the water for what seems like an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51993","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\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52370,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51993\/revisions\/52370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}