{"id":74657,"date":"2020-06-28T04:14:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T08:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=74657"},"modified":"2020-06-28T04:14:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T08:14:45","slug":"the-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>24 Poems: &#8220;The Dinner Party&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Volunteers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Someone was observant<\/p>\n<p>Noticing the mess<\/p>\n<p>Hesitant to speak<\/p>\n<p>Until firmly advising, \u201cLet\u2019s clean up the mess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So when I looked<\/p>\n<p>I realized shew was right<\/p>\n<p>There was no room on the counter<\/p>\n<p>From the left or the right<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The eager helpers<\/p>\n<p>cried, \u201cGreat, we\u2019ll have it all cleared before dessert\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I was slightly embarrassed<\/p>\n<p>But finalized the dessert<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They rinsed all the dishes, forks knives and spoons<\/p>\n<p>Filling the dishwasher and clearing the counter<\/p>\n<p>It made it easy the rest of the way<\/p>\n<p>And I thanked them for the re-birth of my counter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much ladies<\/p>\n<p>I won\u2019t wake up tomorrow to a clutter<\/p>\n<p>I will remember now the importance<\/p>\n<p>On the mid-term removal of clutter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>DeaBeePea \u00a06-26-20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 Poems: &#8220;The Dinner Party&#8221; &nbsp; The Volunteers &nbsp; Someone was observant Noticing the mess Hesitant to speak Until firmly advising, \u201cLet\u2019s clean up the mess.\u201d &nbsp; So when I looked I realized shew was right There was no room on the counter From the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1447,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74657","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\/1447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74681,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74657\/revisions\/74681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}