{"id":63768,"date":"2020-06-27T11:33:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=63768"},"modified":"2020-06-27T11:33:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:33:10","slug":"pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day folds into the next<br \/>\nand I am disoriented<br \/>\nby so much time, so little time<br \/>\nAt night, my dreams are haunted<br \/>\nby face masks, germs<br \/>\nand nasal swabs.<\/p>\n<p>What time is it now?<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I think<br \/>\nhow much I will age<br \/>\nbefore my next pub drink with friends<br \/>\nand that I might not see my dad again<br \/>\nand then I distract myself<br \/>\nfilling hummingbird feeders<br \/>\nscrubbing the sink<br \/>\nwatching protests on the news.<\/p>\n<p>What time is it now?<\/p>\n<p>We can use this pause<br \/>\nif we seize the moment:<br \/>\ndismantle racist structures<br \/>\npay attention to the planet<br \/>\nfocus on peace<br \/>\nbut we cannot wait another minute<\/p>\n<p>What time is it now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day folds into the next and I am disoriented by so much time, so little time At night, my dreams are haunted by face masks, germs and nasal swabs. What time is it now? Sometimes I think how much I will age before my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[3547,3548],"class_list":["post-63768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-bop-poem","tag-prompt-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63768","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\/1287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63905,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63768\/revisions\/63905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}