{"id":71660,"date":"2020-06-27T22:02:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T02:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71660"},"modified":"2020-06-27T22:02:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T02:02:26","slug":"hour-13-prompt-13-check-the-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-13-prompt-13-check-the-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 13; Prompt 13: Check the Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always check the levels<br \/>\nFirst, before even putting my shoes on<br \/>\nIt determines how my day will go<br \/>\nAnd if I even get it done<\/p>\n<p>The smell of rotting vegetation still stuck to the bag<br \/>\nAlong with oil and gasoline rich with detergent<br \/>\nCovet my sense of smell<br \/>\nAnd I smile<\/p>\n<p>It brings back memories of my uncles house<br \/>\nWhere I stayed one summer<br \/>\nAs punishment<br \/>\nI wasn&#8217;t a bad kid<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;d done some bad things<br \/>\nHe was a Drill Instructor<\/p>\n<p>One of my chores was to mow the lawn; front and back<br \/>\nThe neighbors, too<br \/>\nFor East Chicago<br \/>\nThat isn&#8217;t much<br \/>\nUnless you use<br \/>\nA push lawn mower, that had no motor<\/p>\n<p>I was pretty strong that fall<br \/>\nBetween pushing the mower<br \/>\nAnd bagging the clippings<br \/>\nI learned how much powered mowers are taken for granted<\/p>\n<p>I always check the levels first<br \/>\nAlways<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always check the levels First, before even putting my shoes on It determines how my day will go And if I even get it done The smell of rotting vegetation still stuck to the bag Along with oil and gasoline rich with detergent Covet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71660","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72036,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71660\/revisions\/72036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}