{"id":56828,"date":"2019-06-23T05:35:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=56828"},"modified":"2019-06-23T05:35:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T09:35:59","slug":"poetrymarathon2019poem20-erasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/poetrymarathon2019poem20-erasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Erasure (2019 Poem 20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erasure of \u201cThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock\u201d by T.S. Eliot<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>Let us go then, you and I<br \/>\nThe evening is spread out against the sky<br \/>\nTo lead you to an overwhelming question<br \/>\nDo I dare<br \/>\nDisturb the universe<br \/>\nI have measured out my life with coffee spoons<br \/>\nSo how should I presume<br \/>\nThe afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully<br \/>\nBut though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed<br \/>\nI am no prophet<br \/>\nI have seen the moment of my greatness flicker<br \/>\nAnd in short, I was afraid<br \/>\nWould it have been worth while<br \/>\nTo have squeezed the universe into a ball<br \/>\nTo roll it towards some overwhelming question<br \/>\nI grow old &#8230; I grow old &#8230;<br \/>\nAnd walk upon the beach<br \/>\nI have heard the mermaids singing<br \/>\nI do not think that they will sing to me<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\u201d by T.S. Eliot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erasure of \u201cThe Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock\u201d by T.S. Eliot &nbsp; Let us go then, you and I The evening is spread out against the sky To lead you to an overwhelming question Do I dare Disturb the universe I have measured out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1285,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[2815],"class_list":["post-56828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2019-poetry-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56828","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\/1285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56844,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56828\/revisions\/56844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}