{"id":63687,"date":"2020-06-27T11:19:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=63687"},"modified":"2020-06-27T11:51:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:51:58","slug":"3-is-this-too-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/3-is-this-too-meta\/","title":{"rendered":"3. Is this too meta?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry is a thing with rules.<br \/>\nMore guidelines than actual rules<br \/>\nrhyme this, rhythm that,<br \/>\nmake sure it has some kind of flow,<br \/>\ngoddammit, if it doesn\u2019t you\u2019re a hack<br \/>\nand you can\u2019t follow the simple rules.<\/p>\n<p>tell me tell me tell me<\/p>\n<p>Tell me this, then, oh Grand Poet Wizard<br \/>\nif I must adhere to your rules, can my lines<br \/>\nbe<br \/>\nso<br \/>\nshort?<br \/>\nIs<br \/>\nthis<br \/>\ncheating?<\/p>\n<p>tell me tell me tell me<\/p>\n<p>Or will you say \u201cget out?\u201d I must instead<br \/>\npractice law, medicine, science, or some other more noble endeavour. That is where the money is don\u2019t you know?<br \/>\n\u201cI have a friend on wall street,\u201d \u201cmy father works for a firm you see,\u201d \u201cWhat makes you the proper candidate for such a noble endeavor?\u201d I\u2019d say my inability to march in a straight line.<\/p>\n<p>tell me tell me tell me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry is a thing with rules. More guidelines than actual rules rhyme this, rhythm that, make sure it has some kind of flow, goddammit, if it doesn\u2019t you\u2019re a hack and you can\u2019t follow the simple rules. tell me tell me tell me Tell me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":936,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3442,2180],"class_list":["post-63687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2020poetrymarathon","tag-hour3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63687","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\/936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64144,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63687\/revisions\/64144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}