{"id":75109,"date":"2020-06-28T05:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=75109"},"modified":"2020-06-28T08:15:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:15:40","slug":"i-just-checked-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/i-just-checked-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"I Just Checked the News Today, Oh Boy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Late nights, sweating on a dance floor, saxophone and electric guitar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0School children running a quarter of a mile for the momentum to fly into my arms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Science experiments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Love letters from seven year-old students on the back of their homework.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dear Ms. Lusty\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Honestly) trying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Honestly) crying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Honestly) forgiving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The right answer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sweet coffee on the way to work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vegan burgers on the way home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Pumpkin patches, Santa\u2019s Village, David Bowie night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ritual. Stability. Growing up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I want my life back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Prompt 20, Hour 20<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late nights, sweating on a dance floor, saxophone and electric guitar. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0School children running a quarter of a mile for the momentum to fly into my arms. &nbsp; Science experiments. Love letters from seven year-old students on the back of their homework. Dear Ms. Lusty\u2026&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[271,1129],"class_list":["post-75109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-hour-21","tag-prompt-21"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75109","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\/1329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76469,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75109\/revisions\/76469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}