{"id":74061,"date":"2020-06-28T02:54:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T06:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=74061"},"modified":"2020-06-28T02:54:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T06:54:19","slug":"hour-19-childrens-new-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-19-childrens-new-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 19: Childrens&#8217;  New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The kids catch the tail-end of the holiday films<br \/>\nWhile parents tidy away the odds and ends,<br \/>\nchoose their best jeans and fix their hair.<br \/>\nThe new toys are now up in the bedrooms.<br \/>\nA pink glow from the tree shines on for the new year.<br \/>\nAdults fill the house, the rooms, the kitchen, the stairs,<br \/>\nalong with alcohol vapor and blue filaments of cigarette smoke.<br \/>\nChildren gingerly make their way among them, observing.<br \/>\nThe night wears on to a count down<br \/>\nwhen everyone forms a circle, singing about forgetting<br \/>\nThe children can barely reach.<br \/>\nParents help the children socialize and say goodnight.<br \/>\nDespite the pounding heartbeat of the music through the floor<br \/>\nthey doze their way to New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kids catch the tail-end of the holiday films While parents tidy away the odds and ends, choose their best jeans and fix their hair. The new toys are now up in the bedrooms. A pink glow from the tree shines on for the new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74061","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\/1179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74161,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74061\/revisions\/74161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}