{"id":73858,"date":"2020-06-28T02:13:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T06:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=73858"},"modified":"2020-06-28T02:13:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T06:13:05","slug":"footsteps-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/footsteps-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Footsteps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footsteps<\/p>\n<p>Hallways refrain from ceramic tiles<br \/>\nchecker-boarded black and white<br \/>\ndown academic paths, windowless,<br \/>\nboard after board postered with events,<br \/>\nclasses on arts and culture, tutors for hire.<\/p>\n<p>Footfalls echo down hospital halls<br \/>\nwalls painted a reserved color<br \/>\nthat should be called hospital green,<br \/>\nsilent nurse shoes rush to find the visitor,<br \/>\nto hush the intruder, wrong floor wrong hours.<\/p>\n<p>Footprints across my forehead<br \/>\nstamped up and down, circled around<br \/>\nlike tire treads tattooed \u2013 bad woes<br \/>\nbad karma, too bad for you<br \/>\nkeep going I say, keep on walking<br \/>\nas I pass you by.<\/p>\n<p>~ J R Turek<br \/>\nJune 28, 2020<br \/>\nHour 18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footsteps Hallways refrain from ceramic tiles checker-boarded black and white down academic paths, windowless, board after board postered with events, classes on arts and culture, tutors for hire. Footfalls echo down hospital halls walls painted a reserved color that should be called hospital green, silent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73858","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\/1325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73874,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73858\/revisions\/73874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}