{"id":64029,"date":"2020-06-27T11:53:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64029"},"modified":"2020-06-27T11:53:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:53:21","slug":"what-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/what-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"What Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They begin days ahead<br \/>\nof the holiday<br \/>\nsnap crackling pops and booms<br \/>\nOne rattles the windows<br \/>\n&#8220;How is that legal?&#8221; we ask<br \/>\nbut no one is arrested<\/p>\n<p>The difference, an FBI sound expert says, is gunshots are all the same volume,<br \/>\nbut firecrackers get louder and then softer and then louder again.<\/p>\n<p>Our dog shivers behind the sofa<br \/>\nwon&#8217;t even go out to pee<br \/>\nRayRay stays locked in his room<br \/>\nearbuds in all night and day<br \/>\nBoth have been<br \/>\non the receiving end<br \/>\nof the guns men held<br \/>\nin their hands<\/p>\n<p>The difference, an FBI sound expert says, is gunshots are all the same volume,<br \/>\nbut firecrackers get louder and then softer and then louder again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fire in the hole!&#8221; the neighbor yells<br \/>\nbefore the sonic boom<br \/>\nI shove another pill in cheese<br \/>\nto feed the dog<br \/>\nthrow out another bag<br \/>\nfilled with RayRay&#8217;s empties<\/p>\n<p>The difference, an FBI sound expert says, is gunshots are all the same volume,<br \/>\nbut firecrackers get louder and then softer and then louder again.<\/p>\n<p>[Prompt 3: Bop poem]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They begin days ahead of the holiday snap crackling pops and booms One rattles the windows &#8220;How is that legal?&#8221; we ask but no one is arrested The difference, an FBI sound expert says, is gunshots are all the same volume, but firecrackers get louder&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64029","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\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64165,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64029\/revisions\/64165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}