{"id":71664,"date":"2020-06-27T21:23:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71664"},"modified":"2020-06-27T21:23:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:23:26","slug":"hour-13-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-13-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 13 &#8211; Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steps<\/p>\n<p>Our playground sits above our school<br \/>\nCut into the top of the nearby hill<br \/>\nUp more than two flights of stairs<br \/>\nPart steps, part path<\/p>\n<p>My arthritic knees carry me slowly, slowly<br \/>\nWhile dozens of children thunder past me<br \/>\nThey are already deep in play<br \/>\nWhen I make my way to my favorite bench<\/p>\n<p>The other teacher leads the games<br \/>\nKickball, or Quidditch, or Sharks and Minnows<br \/>\nWhile I sort out the disputes<br \/>\nand watch for rough play<\/p>\n<p>Each day, a little victory<br \/>\nI made it to the top again<br \/>\nEach day, a little apprehension<br \/>\nHow long can these old knees keep up?<\/p>\n<p>We gather them in<br \/>\nAnd head down the path<br \/>\nTomorrow I face my toughest challenge<br \/>\nyet again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steps Our playground sits above our school Cut into the top of the nearby hill Up more than two flights of stairs Part steps, part path My arthritic knees carry me slowly, slowly While dozens of children thunder past me They are already deep in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71664","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\/1047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71681,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71664\/revisions\/71681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}