{"id":57838,"date":"2019-06-23T08:35:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T12:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=57838"},"modified":"2019-06-23T08:35:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T12:35:01","slug":"the-bottom-line-a-non-traditional-minute-poem-hour-twenty-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-bottom-line-a-non-traditional-minute-poem-hour-twenty-four\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bottom Line (A Non-Traditional Minute Poem, Hour Twenty-Four)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\">The Bottom Line<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Twenty-four hours have come to pass<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I sit and stare<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Through bloodshot eyes<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Put pen to page<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This adventure in expression<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Has shown me much<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">About myself<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">And how I think<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Losing sleep, forced isolation<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">In conclusion,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Was it worth it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Bottom line, <span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong>YEP.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(How appropriate to wind down a timed challenge with a minute poem! Minute poems feature exactly sixty syllables split among three stanzas. Each stanza follows a syllabic count of 8\/4\/4\/4. A traditional minute poem has a specific rhyme scheme of aabb, ccdd, eeff and must be written in strict iambic pentameter. I chose the tired person&#8217;s non-traditional version, which releases me from those requirements.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bottom Line &nbsp; Twenty-four hours have come to pass I sit and stare Through bloodshot eyes Put pen to page &nbsp; This adventure in expression Has shown me much About myself And how I think &nbsp; Losing sleep, forced isolation In conclusion, Was it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[274,3382,3383],"class_list":["post-57838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","tag-hour-24","tag-minute-poem","tag-we-did-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57838","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\/1212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57947,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57838\/revisions\/57947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}