{"id":70200,"date":"2020-06-27T19:16:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=70200"},"modified":"2020-06-27T19:16:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:16:24","slug":"ode-to-bob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/ode-to-bob\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Bob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The tropical heat percolated on the small of her back,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was the early 60s, in Trenchtown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The flies bothered them only in the morning,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the night, they clung to the ceiling and watched them make love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His dreadlocks the color of crematory smoke,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spread like tree roots across her satin pillow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His eyes sad but words hopeful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She straddled him with lust but found faith when he was inside her,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A black poet, a black Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No man felt as electric,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When he danced there was lightning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When he sang, there was peace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Hour 11, Prompt 11<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tropical heat percolated on the small of her back, It was the early 60s, in Trenchtown. &nbsp; The flies bothered them only in the morning, In the night, they clung to the ceiling and watched them make love. &nbsp; His dreadlocks the color of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3010,177,792,810],"class_list":["post-70200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-prompt11","tag-hour-11","tag-hour-11-prompt","tag-prompt-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70200","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\/1329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70215,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70200\/revisions\/70215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}