{"id":64067,"date":"2020-06-27T11:46:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64067"},"modified":"2020-06-27T11:46:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:46:35","slug":"bopping-with-don-quixote-hour-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/bopping-with-don-quixote-hour-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Bopping with Don Quixote (Hour 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bopping with Don Quixote<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I believe that Don Quixote is a worthy hero \u2014<br \/>\nrescuing maidens,<br \/>\ntilting at windmills,<br \/>\ninhaling misguided adventures,<br \/>\nthinking he can save the world,<br \/>\ndreaming the impossible dream.<\/p>\n<p>Quixote has planted a thorn in my heart,<br \/>\na naive desire to reach the unreachable.<\/p>\n<p>Reaching for the unreachable<br \/>\nleaves one always swallowing failure.<br \/>\nArms get tired; they ache<br \/>\nfrom carrying a heavy lance.<br \/>\nThe heart gets heavy, too.<br \/>\nThe foe is unbeatable,<br \/>\nthe sorrow unbearable.<br \/>\nThe quest never ends.<\/p>\n<p>Quixote has planted a thorn in my heart,<br \/>\na naive desire to reach the unreachable.<\/p>\n<p>But Quixote never claimed victory.<br \/>\nHe only sought to be true to the quest,<br \/>\nto make the world a better place.<br \/>\nI am like Don Quixote, chasing windmills<br \/>\nwithout expectation of success.<br \/>\nSatisfied merely to try.<\/p>\n<p>Quixote has planted a thorn in my heart,<br \/>\na naive desire to reach the unreachable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bopping with Don Quixote I believe that Don Quixote is a worthy hero \u2014 rescuing maidens, tilting at windmills, inhaling misguided adventures, thinking he can save the world, dreaming the impossible dream. Quixote has planted a thorn in my heart, a naive desire to reach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64067","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\/1145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64088,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64067\/revisions\/64088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}