{"id":71907,"date":"2020-06-27T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71907"},"modified":"2020-06-27T21:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:48:00","slug":"stand-at-the-ready-hour-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/stand-at-the-ready-hour-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand At The Ready &#8211; Hour 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five times a day<br \/>\nSometimes more<br \/>\nI stand at the ready<br \/>\nTo salute my Lord<br \/>\nI recite his poetry<br \/>\nReminding myself of his words of advice<br \/>\nThen I reach deep down<br \/>\nAnd loosen the valve<br \/>\nI confide in Allah<br \/>\nAnd ask for guidance in all that I do<br \/>\nThen I make a verbal tribute to a time when heroes led us<br \/>\nLet their legacy continue to bring light to this world<br \/>\nI end by acknowledging the angels by my side<br \/>\nWhen the day comes<br \/>\nI shall let them defend my case<br \/>\nOne, two, three, four, five times a day<br \/>\nSometimes more<br \/>\nI stand at the ready to salute my Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five times a day Sometimes more I stand at the ready To salute my Lord I recite his poetry Reminding myself of his words of advice Then I reach deep down And loosen the valve I confide in Allah And ask for guidance in all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71907","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\/1399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71914,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71907\/revisions\/71914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}