{"id":66831,"date":"2020-06-27T15:01:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=66831"},"modified":"2020-06-27T15:01:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T19:01:25","slug":"no-to-do-list-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/no-to-do-list-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"No To-Do List Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Start fresh, sun through windows,<br \/>\nbright or clouded,<br \/>\nit doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p>Coffee burbles into the pot.<br \/>\nIts acrid scent,<br \/>\nan empty page, and<br \/>\na purring cat on the table<br \/>\nare enough.<\/p>\n<p>Not quite silent.<br \/>\nThrough the open door, wind<br \/>\nrattles limbs, sings through the leaves,<br \/>\naccompanied by a host of backup musicians,<br \/>\ncrows, out-of-tune jays,<br \/>\nwoodpeckers, those virtuoso drummers.<\/p>\n<p>No one notices when I step outside<br \/>\nexcept Nike, her tail slapping air.<br \/>\nBirds continue their song.<br \/>\nSquirrels taunt my dog, walking shoes<br \/>\ncrunch gravel in the drive,<br \/>\nand a story takes form in my head.<br \/>\nThe air is cool, but not cold.<\/p>\n<p>Back inside, the television is silent<br \/>\nand daily chores can wait.<br \/>\nMy fingers tap, tap, tap<br \/>\nthe keyboard,<br \/>\nNike snores at my feet,<br \/>\nand brushing my right arm,<br \/>\none hind foot resting against the laptop,<br \/>\nthat still-purring cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start fresh, sun through windows, bright or clouded, it doesn\u2019t matter. Coffee burbles into the pot. Its acrid scent, an empty page, and a purring cat on the table are enough. Not quite silent. Through the open door, wind rattles limbs, sings through the leaves,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66831","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\/66831","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\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66851,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66831\/revisions\/66851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}