{"id":73804,"date":"2020-06-28T02:47:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T06:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=73804"},"modified":"2020-06-28T02:47:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T06:47:51","slug":"poem-6-prompt-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/poem-6-prompt-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem 6, Prompt 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack and I, we hit the road<br \/>\nWe took a trip by van<br \/>\nWe trundled up the highway<br \/>\nSeeking seawater and sand<\/p>\n<p>It took three days to get there<br \/>\nSpending nights in one-horse towns<br \/>\nSinging shanties by the fire<br \/>\nFilling silence up with sound<\/p>\n<p>Destination beach was reached<br \/>\nMid-afternoon day four<br \/>\nA heaving mass of travellers<br \/>\nCheek to jowl along the shore<\/p>\n<p>No room for sitting calmly<br \/>\nDipping toes or playing songs<br \/>\nJack and I felt overwhelmed<br \/>\nAll caught up in the throng<\/p>\n<p>So once day five was underway<br \/>\nWe turned the van around<br \/>\nAnd we drove back the way we&#8217;d come<br \/>\nBack to those tiny towns<\/p>\n<p>Quiet little sleepy spots<br \/>\nNothing to really do<br \/>\nBut sit and sing and feel the sun<br \/>\nA holiday through and through<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack and I, we hit the road We took a trip by van We trundled up the highway Seeking seawater and sand It took three days to get there Spending nights in one-horse towns Singing shanties by the fire Filling silence up with sound Destination&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1408,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73804","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\/1408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74118,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73804\/revisions\/74118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}