{"id":57823,"date":"2019-06-23T08:19:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T12:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=57823"},"modified":"2019-06-23T08:19:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T12:19:17","slug":"2019-twenty-four-the-pop-song-prompt-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/2019-twenty-four-the-pop-song-prompt-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 &#8211; Twenty-Four &#8211; The Pop Song Prompt &#8211; &#8220;Heroes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exhausted from the weight of all the words<br \/>\nthe poet settles in, enjoys the birds<br \/>\nas they begin to sing in the rising sun<br \/>\nand he feels the joy of finishing what he&#8217;d begun.<br \/>\nHe didn&#8217;t swing a bat or kick a ball.<br \/>\nHe didn&#8217;t slap a puck or scrap and brawl.<br \/>\nHe simply played with words and so he knows<br \/>\nthat he performed the work of his great heroes.<\/p>\n<p>And so, like them when they passed some great test<br \/>\nhe burrows in his blankets. He&#8217;s earned his rest.<\/p>\n<p>All like him, each poet left still standing fiercely shows<br \/>\nthat like the old ones, there are new poet heroes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exhausted from the weight of all the words the poet settles in, enjoys the birds as they begin to sing in the rising sun and he feels the joy of finishing what he&#8217;d begun. He didn&#8217;t swing a bat or kick a ball. He didn&#8217;t&#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-57823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57823","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=57823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57852,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57823\/revisions\/57852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}