{"id":65001,"date":"2020-06-27T12:57:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65001"},"modified":"2020-06-27T16:15:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T20:15:45","slug":"hour-4-the-timer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-4-the-timer\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 4:  The Timer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Nanny,<\/p>\n<p>I have the timer from your kitchen drawer,<br \/>\nwhite sand still sliding through in tiny grains.<br \/>\nTime is trapped in plastic, a green jewel &#8211;<br \/>\nA prism that mirrors and fractures light.<\/p>\n<p>This object rested on your window sill,<br \/>\nlooking out at green grass and bird feeders,<br \/>\nA washing line, a swing for the children.<br \/>\nTime moves on though you are no longer here.<\/p>\n<p>Time for breakfast, time for toast and honey.<br \/>\nSmiles and sugar. Treats from the biscuit tin.<br \/>\nNow and then I turn the thing upside down.<br \/>\nI feel the weight of your love in my hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Nanny, I have the timer from your kitchen drawer, white sand still sliding through in tiny grains. Time is trapped in plastic, a green jewel &#8211; A prism that mirrors and fractures light. This object rested on your window sill, looking out at green&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65001","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\/1179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65080,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65001\/revisions\/65080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}