{"id":73481,"date":"2020-06-28T01:26:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T05:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=73481"},"modified":"2020-06-28T01:26:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T05:26:14","slug":"hour-17-how-do-you-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-17-how-do-you-use-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 17: How do You Use it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the day,<br \/>\nTime to take that test,<br \/>\nHopefully, you studied well.<\/p>\n<p>At the door your tech is confiscated,<br \/>\nBut luckily, they are kind enough to give you a dictionary,<br \/>\nAnd then it sinks in, how do you use it?<\/p>\n<p>A gigantic book sitting on your desk,<br \/>\nThe way you stare at it makes it seem like it&#8217;s a monster,<br \/>\nTaking your seat, you keep looking over at it, as if in fear.<\/p>\n<p>The test begins and there it is,<br \/>\nA word you don&#8217;t know, you reach for your phone, but remember, it&#8217;s not there,<br \/>\nAnother look at the dictionary, reaching out to touch it.<\/p>\n<p>Your eyes are closed because you feared it would harm you,<br \/>\nOpening it, you see nothing but words, but not the one you&#8217;re looking for,<br \/>\nThinking to yourself, how do you use this thing?<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s just that simple, the words are in alphabetical order,<br \/>\nSo all you have to do is look for the word by spelling it out while searching,<br \/>\nIn the end, you find what you\u2019re looking for and laugh to yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Why was I so terrified of something so useful, but ancient,<br \/>\nTechnology, I presume makes us a little dumbfounded by the simplicity,<br \/>\nNo longer will an old dictionary give me the chills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the day, Time to take that test, Hopefully, you studied well. At the door your tech is confiscated, But luckily, they are kind enough to give you a dictionary, And then it sinks in, how do you use it? A gigantic book sitting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73481","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\/1380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73488,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73481\/revisions\/73488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}