{"id":71046,"date":"2020-06-27T20:38:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71046"},"modified":"2020-06-27T20:38:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:38:31","slug":"removing-the-host-hour-12-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/removing-the-host-hour-12-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Removing the Host &#8211; Hour 12 Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I ask you a question<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s your reply going to be<br \/>\nWould you think it through with purpose<br \/>\nTo answer honestly<br \/>\nOr would my very asking<br \/>\nBe only for my gain<br \/>\nAs you make up an answer<br \/>\nWithout a truthful grain<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m asking you for reference<br \/>\nAbout some form of text<br \/>\nWould you give me some guidance<br \/>\nOr do something else next<br \/>\nAm I your first in memory<br \/>\nDo I simply follow suit<br \/>\nWill I reap in your legacy<br \/>\nOr will I become moot<\/p>\n<p>Is this our life in color<br \/>\nOr is this black and white<br \/>\nDo you really even know me<br \/>\nOr I, you, in this light<br \/>\nThe shame that we have come here<br \/>\nThe gleam gone from our eyes<br \/>\nBut we have drifted different ways<br \/>\nMore than we realize<\/p>\n<p>Can we ever recover<br \/>\nWho knows, if we don&#8217;t try<br \/>\nBut you can&#8217;t recognize the worth<br \/>\nSo, I guess it&#8217;s goodbye<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sorry that it&#8217;s over<br \/>\nAnd yes, that hurts the most<br \/>\nBut I can&#8217;t do it anymore<br \/>\nAs your narcissistic host<\/p>\n<p>From Elton John&#8217;s <em>Me<\/em>. Page 354. &#8220;The only question worth asking is, what&#8217;s next?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I ask you a question What&#8217;s your reply going to be Would you think it through with purpose To answer honestly Or would my very asking Be only for my gain As you make up an answer Without a truthful grain If I&#8217;m asking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,1136,441],"tags":[2228,3442,1173,1806,3456,355,392],"class_list":["post-71046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2017poetrymarathon","tag-2020poetrymarathon","tag-half-marathon","tag-jill-eisnaugle","tag-jill-halasz","tag-poetry-marathon","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71046","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\/1313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71200,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71046\/revisions\/71200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}