{"id":70600,"date":"2020-06-27T19:52:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=70600"},"modified":"2020-06-29T22:41:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T02:41:05","slug":"2020-poetry-marathon-hour-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/2020-poetry-marathon-hour-11\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Poetry Marathon, Hour 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The prompt for hour 11 is to write a poem about a place you&#8217;ve never been. I sort of did that. (Sort of.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>The song \u2018Never Been to Spain\u2019 comes to mind<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Well, I haven\u2019t been there<br \/>\nor to Paris in springtime<br \/>\nor to Buenos Aires when the northern hemisphere<br \/>\nis under eighteen inches of snow and ice<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I haven\u2019t been on safari<br \/>\nwith either camera or gun<br \/>\nor flown over the Great Barrier Reef<br \/>\njust me, the pilot, and the sun<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I haven\u2019t been to Red Square<br \/>\nor walked upon the Great Wall<br \/>\nto retrace a famous journey<br \/>\nor re-enact the revolution<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I haven\u2019t walked an old dirt road<br \/>\nthat went on for miles<br \/>\nuntil I reached the next village<br \/>\nand waited for the downpour to pass<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019ve been far away from home<br \/>\nwhere I once hoped to stay<br \/>\nfor years after I\u2019d already left<br \/>\n(it was no vacation, believe me)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019ve been in weird dream junkyards<br \/>\nrunning from dogs<br \/>\nhiding behind cars<br \/>\nand almost saving the world<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019ve been in situations<br \/>\nwhere I never expected to be<br \/>\nand if I hadn\u2019t been there<br \/>\nI\u2019d have never thought it was me<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Lately, I\u2019ve been wondering<br \/>\nbut then I tell myself no\u2014<br \/>\nI\u2019m going to be the same<br \/>\nwherever I go<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Though if you whispered<br \/>\njust the right words<br \/>\nI might change my mind<br \/>\n(maybe you already know)<\/p>\n<p>(27 June 2020)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prompt for hour 11 is to write a poem about a place you&#8217;ve never been. I sort of did that. (Sort of.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":793,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3453,1173,177,1163],"class_list":["post-70600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2020-poetry-marathon","tag-half-marathon","tag-hour-11","tag-kevin-j-oconner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70600","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\/793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77678,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70600\/revisions\/77678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}