{"id":7558,"date":"2015-06-13T11:19:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T15:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=7558"},"modified":"2015-06-13T11:22:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T15:22:54","slug":"hour-02-11-30am-12-30am-39-those-famous-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/hour-02-11-30am-12-30am-39-those-famous-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 02 11.30pm-12.30am &#8212; #39 &#8220;Those famous steps&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>#39<\/p>\n<p>wooden stairs<br \/>\ngo down to the beach<br \/>\n&amp; little girls who\u2019ve<br \/>\njust learnt to count<br \/>\ngo up &amp; down them<br \/>\ngleefully announcing<br \/>\nhow many there are<\/p>\n<p>i am sick with ulcers<br \/>\n&amp; cannot make<br \/>\nthe journey myself<br \/>\nso every day<br \/>\nmust<br \/>\ndescend &amp; ascend<br \/>\non the backs<br \/>\nof my daughters<\/p>\n<p>welts on my wrists<br \/>\nfrom the long days<br \/>\nof being handcuffed<br \/>\nto my age<\/p>\n<p>so i watch the birds<br \/>\nfrom my rear window<br \/>\navoiding vertigo<br \/>\nyet when the wind<br \/>\nis southerly<br \/>\ni know a hawk<br \/>\nfrom a heron, sure<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/garethroi.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/oldbingocard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-628\" src=\"https:\/\/garethroi.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/oldbingocard.jpg?w=256\" alt=\"OldBingoCard\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#39 wooden stairs go down to the beach &amp; little girls who\u2019ve just learnt to count go up &amp; down them gleefully announcing how many there are i am sick with ulcers &amp; cannot make the journey myself so every day must descend &amp; ascend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[420,140],"class_list":["post-7558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-420","tag-steps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7558","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\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7575,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7558\/revisions\/7575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}