{"id":69331,"date":"2020-06-27T18:40:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=69331"},"modified":"2020-06-27T18:49:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:49:33","slug":"wringer-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/wringer-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Wringer of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be a wringer of life-<\/p>\n<p>Squeeze for all I&#8217;m worth.<\/p>\n<p>Hold my days in a vise.<\/p>\n<p>Die clutching the earth.<\/p>\n<p>I will not go gently.<\/p>\n<p>I will rage and fight.<\/p>\n<p>For me there will be<\/p>\n<p>No exit stage right.<\/p>\n<p>When at last I am spent<\/p>\n<p>To the grave, I&#8217;ve arrived<\/p>\n<p>I want to scream out<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wow! What a Ride!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgcs.org\/cms\/lib\/DC00001581\/Centricity\/Domain\/25\/Coleman_Poem_Do_not_go_gentle_into_that_good_night.pdf\">https:\/\/www.cgcs.org\/cms\/lib\/DC00001581\/Centricity\/Domain\/25\/Coleman_Poem_Do_not_go_gentle_into_that_good_night.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/47188-life-should-not-be-a-journey-to-the-grave-with\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/47188-life-should-not-be-a-journey-to-the-grave-with<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be a wringer of life- Squeeze for all I&#8217;m worth. Hold my days in a vise. Die clutching the earth. I will not go gently. I will rage and fight. For me there will be No exit stage right. When at last I am&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69331","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\/1495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69917,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69331\/revisions\/69917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}