{"id":64189,"date":"2020-06-27T11:59:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64189"},"modified":"2020-06-27T19:41:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:41:40","slug":"keeping-my-word-to-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/keeping-my-word-to-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 3 Keeping My Word To Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keeping My Word To Myself<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">~willjxn~<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Last night I went to bed undecided.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Thinking of all the words I\u2019ve promised to keep<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0work deadlines,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0family expectations,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Morning woke me, thinking about \u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">keeping my word to myself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I got up from bed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0I organized my office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0I watered the flowers in the yard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0I fed the dog and took the trash out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Do I have time for this?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Poetry is so expensive!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It cost too much in time for just me\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keeping my word to myself?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0I sit down to start\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My granddaughters come rushing in;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">their daddy comes in to visit me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I always keep time for their hearts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I let them know I love them while\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">keeping my word to myself.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping My Word To Myself ~willjxn~ \u00a0Last night I went to bed undecided. \u00a0Thinking of all the words I\u2019ve promised to keep \u00a0work deadlines, \u00a0family expectations, Morning woke me, thinking about \u2014 keeping my word to myself. &nbsp; I got up from bed. \u00a0I organized&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64189","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\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70510,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64189\/revisions\/70510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}