{"id":69485,"date":"2020-06-27T18:30:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T22:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=69485"},"modified":"2020-07-01T00:08:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T04:08:34","slug":"prompt-10-hour-10-cat-stevens-inspired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/prompt-10-hour-10-cat-stevens-inspired\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 10, Hour 10 &#8211; Cat Stevens Inspired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blessed to have the ears<\/p>\n<p>to capture moonlight voices<\/p>\n<p>and delicate strokes of a guitar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fortunate, beyond measure,<\/p>\n<p>to have the mind ready to draw pictures<\/p>\n<p>of words sung into eternity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Proud, of my sensitive self<\/p>\n<p>tied up in childhood memories<\/p>\n<p>of the Creative spirit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blissful in knowing,<\/p>\n<p>that perhaps music will never be so good again,<\/p>\n<p>but the art of film was invented just in time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If I ever lost my ears,<\/p>\n<p>at least I have heard the deep tunes<\/p>\n<p>of a spirited man.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If I ever lost imagination,<\/p>\n<p>at least I have known lyrics<\/p>\n<p>made to turn the ordinary, sublime.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If I ever lose my youth,<\/p>\n<p>then there will be no worry,<\/p>\n<p>graceful age will make the sunrise all the more beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blessed to have the ears to capture moonlight voices and delicate strokes of a guitar. &nbsp; Fortunate, beyond measure, to have the mind ready to draw pictures of words sung into eternity. &nbsp; Proud, of my sensitive self tied up in childhood memories of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69485","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\/1279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69485"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77780,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69485\/revisions\/77780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}