{"id":53892,"date":"2019-06-22T21:52:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T01:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=53892"},"modified":"2019-06-24T13:16:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T17:16:30","slug":"argy-bargy-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/argy-bargy-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"Argy Bargy (Argument)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/the-poetry-marathon-prompts\/prompt-16-hour-13\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Prompt 16, Hour 13<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"dt-archive-post-content\">\n<p><strong><span dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"_3l3x\">Open a dictionary. Pick out an unusual word. Let your poem define that word without ever using the word itself (except perhaps, as the final word in the poem.) You may choose to use the word as your title if that works for you.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s always a clashing &#8211; chaotic sight &#8230; at the traffic light<\/p>\n<p>They honk, they swear &#8230; but letting the other car pass is rare<\/p>\n<p>Its always the poor wife&#8217;s curse and moan &#8230; that fills the addicted man&#8217;s home<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t quit the smoke, the drink &#8230; he tosses his life away in a wink<\/p>\n<p>Its always disheartening &#8230; to see such examples of our world conflicting<\/p>\n<p>At home, in the streets, anywhere we go &#8230; thoughts, words, actions of discord we sow<\/p>\n<p>Its always been the religion, class, color that started it all &#8230; it has started mankind&#8217;s downfall<\/p>\n<p>I am this, you are that &#8230; I said, you said, he said<\/p>\n<p>But the color of our blood that gets into this &#8220;argy bargy&#8221; is red<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Prompt 16, Hour 13 Open a dictionary. Pick out an unusual word. Let your poem define that word without ever using the word itself (except perhaps, as the final word in the poem.) You may choose to use the word as your title if&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53892","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\/53892","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\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58455,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53892\/revisions\/58455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}