{"id":62944,"date":"2020-06-27T10:27:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T14:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=62944"},"modified":"2020-06-27T13:16:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:16:25","slug":"2020-poetry-marathon-hour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/2020-poetry-marathon-hour-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Poetry Marathon, Hour 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hour 2 prompt: The <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/the-poetry-marathon-prompts\/hour-2-prompt-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recipe thing<\/a>.\u00a0I listed my ingredients, then followed the recipe (sort of).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It\u2019s not all I think about, but I wonder sometimes<br \/>\nI hope there are better times ahead<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I can tell myself that the hole in the heel of my sock<br \/>\nmeans I can better feel the ground beneath my feet<br \/>\nand maybe that\u2019s true<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I can tell myself that a smile is a smile<br \/>\neven when it is hidden by one to three layers of fabric<br \/>\n(with or without a filter)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I can tell myself that it will be all right in the morning<br \/>\nif I can just get a good night\u2019s sleep<br \/>\nand start the new day fresh<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I can tell myself that the convulsions shaking and breaking all day long<br \/>\nare only a distraction<br \/>\nand the real news is what\u2019s happening inside<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And I can hope that I\u2019m not the only one<br \/>\nto realize this<\/p>\n<p>(27 June 2020)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour 2 prompt: The recipe thing.\u00a0I listed my ingredients, then followed the recipe (sort of).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":793,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3453,1173,46,1163],"class_list":["post-62944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2020-poetry-marathon","tag-half-marathon","tag-hour-2","tag-kevin-j-oconner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62944","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\/793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65341,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62944\/revisions\/65341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}