{"id":73608,"date":"2020-06-28T01:44:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T05:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=73608"},"modified":"2020-06-28T01:45:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T05:45:46","slug":"tick-tock-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/tick-tock-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tick, Tock."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My classroom clock,<\/p>\n<p>Stuck to the wall,<\/p>\n<p>Staring at me &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Spinning endlessly,<\/p>\n<p>Forever.<\/p>\n<p>Tick, Tock,<\/p>\n<p>Tick, Tock.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Time is eternal<\/p>\n<p>And will live<\/p>\n<p>Well past my days<\/p>\n<p>On this earth.<\/p>\n<p>My classroom clock<\/p>\n<p>just wishes<\/p>\n<p>It could move<\/p>\n<p>To swat the fly<\/p>\n<p>Crawling over its face.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My classroom clock<\/p>\n<p>knows I\u2019m the<\/p>\n<p>only one<\/p>\n<p>In this classroom<\/p>\n<p>That has any use for him.<\/p>\n<p>Our students have<\/p>\n<p>no idea<\/p>\n<p>How to tell time<\/p>\n<p>Unless<\/p>\n<p>it is by a digital number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My classroom clock, Stuck to the wall, Staring at me &#8211; Spinning endlessly, Forever. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock. &nbsp; Time is eternal And will live Well past my days On this earth. My classroom clock just wishes It could move To swat the fly Crawling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1448,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73608","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\/1448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73624,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73608\/revisions\/73624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}