{"id":73377,"date":"2020-06-28T01:12:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T05:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=73377"},"modified":"2020-06-29T15:09:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T19:09:12","slug":"hour-17prompt-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-17prompt-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 17: The 80&#8217;s Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The 80&#8217;s Tech<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I remember as a teenager having my finger at the ready<\/p>\n<p>To push the button on my boombox, I\u2019d have to hold it steady.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d wait and wait some more, just waiting for a song<\/p>\n<p>To record at the right time, sometimes I\u2019d have to wait so long.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d finally get the song, and in the summers heat<\/p>\n<p>My cassette would frustratingly melt, I would feel defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Other times it would unravel, a pencil I would grab<\/p>\n<p>I would have to wind it carefully, be careful not to stab.<\/p>\n<p>When I finally got my mixtape perfected I would place<\/p>\n<p>It in my Walkman happily, turn it up and hear that bass.<\/p>\n<p>I still have so many cassette tapes, a holdover from my youth<\/p>\n<p>To get rid of them would break my heart, and that is the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 80&#8217;s Tech I remember as a teenager having my finger at the ready To push the button on my boombox, I\u2019d have to hold it steady. I\u2019d wait and wait some more, just waiting for a song To record at the right time, sometimes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":976,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73377","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\/976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77588,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73377\/revisions\/77588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}