{"id":75054,"date":"2020-06-28T05:09:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T09:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=75054"},"modified":"2020-06-28T05:09:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T09:09:30","slug":"forgive-me-muse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/forgive-me-muse\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgive Me, Muse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forgive Me, Muse<\/p>\n<p>Bless me, Muse<br \/>\nfor I have sinned.<\/p>\n<p>I intentionally<br \/>\nmisplaced 4 commas<br \/>\n7 times,<br \/>\nstole an entire line<br \/>\nfrom Shakespeare<br \/>\n(like he\u2019d know),<br \/>\nresorted to using<br \/>\n2 adverbs<br \/>\nand 3 clich\u00e9s,<br \/>\nrewrote Frost\u2019s<br \/>\nmost famous poem<br \/>\n(I like mine better).<br \/>\nI defied Webster<br \/>\n80 times last week,<br \/>\nand I lied<br \/>\nin every poem<br \/>\nI\u2019ve written this year,<br \/>\nand last year,<br \/>\nand all the years<br \/>\nbefore.<br \/>\nI confess<br \/>\nI regret<br \/>\nnone of it.<br \/>\nStill,<br \/>\nforgive me, Muse.<\/p>\n<p>~ J R Turek<br \/>\nJune 28, 2020<br \/>\nHour 21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgive Me, Muse Bless me, Muse for I have sinned. I intentionally misplaced 4 commas 7 times, stole an entire line from Shakespeare (like he\u2019d know), resorted to using 2 adverbs and 3 clich\u00e9s, rewrote Frost\u2019s most famous poem (I like mine better). I defied&#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-75054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75054","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=75054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75061,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75054\/revisions\/75061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}