{"id":65303,"date":"2020-06-27T13:14:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=65303"},"modified":"2020-06-27T13:16:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T17:16:54","slug":"the-carver-hour-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-carver-hour-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Carver (Hour 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-65314\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tree-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tree-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tree-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tree-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tree-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tree-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tree-1-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The carver<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t agree.<\/p>\n<p>Carving a tree seemed heartless to me.<br \/>\nBut you had gone into he-man mode.<br \/>\nYour face was stony while you carved.<br \/>\nFocused.<br \/>\nRelentless.<\/p>\n<p>For all that, we have a small heart<br \/>\nout of place on a somber tree.<\/p>\n<p>I might have said no.<br \/>\nBut I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>You might have understood me.<br \/>\nBut you didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>That heart is not a tribute.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a scar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carver I didn\u2019t agree. Carving a tree seemed heartless to me. But you had gone into he-man mode. Your face was stony while you carved. Focused. Relentless. For all that, we have a small heart out of place on a somber tree. I might&#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-65303","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\/65303","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=65303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65374,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65303\/revisions\/65374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}