{"id":62599,"date":"2020-06-27T10:18:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T14:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=62599"},"modified":"2020-06-27T10:18:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T14:18:12","slug":"recipe-for-the-poetry-marathon-hour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/recipe-for-the-poetry-marathon-hour-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipe for The Poetry Marathon- Hour 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First grab your courage<\/p>\n<p>Sign up, sign in<\/p>\n<p>Take your pledge to follow through<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stare at the screen, white and pristine<\/p>\n<p>Hear it sing in quiet words<\/p>\n<p>Floating about above your head<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Place your fingers<\/p>\n<p>Carefully on the keys<\/p>\n<p>Make them dance around<\/p>\n<p>Pulling words from the air<\/p>\n<p>Light, airy,<\/p>\n<p>Dark, destructive<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Entice the muses<\/p>\n<p>Make them your friend<\/p>\n<p>Sit them on your shoulder to watch<\/p>\n<p>Feed them coffee and Cheez-Its<\/p>\n<p>Play with them<\/p>\n<p>Amuse them<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Form the poem<\/p>\n<p>Structure<\/p>\n<p>Simile, metaphor<\/p>\n<p>Random musings<\/p>\n<p>Rhythm, rhyme<\/p>\n<p>Freedom to galivant<\/p>\n<p>Bring in heroes, villains<\/p>\n<p>A piece of toast<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Edit it<\/p>\n<p>Publish it<\/p>\n<p>Send it out into the world<\/p>\n<p>Your baby into the ethers<\/p>\n<p>Sit back, relax<\/p>\n<p>Until the hour is done<\/p>\n<p>Sip your coffee, pet your muse<\/p>\n<p>Repeat<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First grab your courage Sign up, sign in Take your pledge to follow through &nbsp; Stare at the screen, white and pristine Hear it sing in quiet words Floating about above your head &nbsp; Place your fingers Carefully on the keys Make them dance around&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62599","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62826,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62599\/revisions\/62826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}