{"id":75614,"date":"2020-06-28T07:58:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=75614"},"modified":"2020-06-28T07:58:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:58:16","slug":"prompt-23-post-23-tommy-the-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/prompt-23-post-23-tommy-the-turtle\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 23 ~ Post #23~ Tommy the Turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I need inspiration<\/p>\n<p>he sits with me at night.<\/p>\n<p>Why others can not see him<\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But he&#8217;s my quacky little turtle<\/p>\n<p>who helps me write away.<\/p>\n<p>When I can&#8217;t think of the perfect word<\/p>\n<p>I know I want to say.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I ask him to complete my sentences<\/p>\n<p>and how to place them so.<\/p>\n<p>That everything will just make sense<\/p>\n<p>and then away my fingers go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He hides right in the corner<\/p>\n<p>Yet no one knows he&#8217;s there.<\/p>\n<p>But when he sees\u00a0 me struggling<\/p>\n<p>he&#8217;ll pop out with a phrase to share.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I guess he&#8217;s only for me<\/p>\n<p>Cuz I&#8217;m the writing buff.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m the one who needs him<\/p>\n<p>When I just need a tug!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>by Del Bates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I need inspiration he sits with me at night. Why others can not see him I just don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s right. &nbsp; But he&#8217;s my quacky little turtle who helps me write away. When I can&#8217;t think of the perfect word I know I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1452,"featured_media":76232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,1136,441,5],"tags":[3663],"class_list":["post-75614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2020poetry-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75614","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\/1452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76285,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75614\/revisions\/76285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}