{"id":76617,"date":"2020-06-28T08:34:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=76617"},"modified":"2020-06-28T08:34:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T12:34:08","slug":"in-the-end-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/in-the-end-3\/","title":{"rendered":"In the end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do I have to say<br \/>\nAt the end of this long journey<br \/>\n24 hours come and gone<br \/>\nNow, here, at the last<br \/>\nI am stumped<\/p>\n<p>I try for something in form<br \/>\nSearching for a sentence<br \/>\nNot wanting to rhyme<br \/>\nBut maybe just make something<br \/>\nWorthwhile<\/p>\n<p>I am at a loss<br \/>\nDear reader<br \/>\nI am tired and weary<br \/>\nThree months have taken their toll<br \/>\nLike few have done<\/p>\n<p>The rest of this year promises to take a toll<br \/>\nAnd next year is already considering its options<br \/>\nLike a chef picking the perfect knife blade<br \/>\nHow best to carve this beast<br \/>\nThat lies in their kitchen<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not for now<br \/>\nToo much thinking will be dangerous<br \/>\nBut we are writers and poets<br \/>\nOur minds are already dangerous<br \/>\nAnd have thought through a hundred scenarios by now<\/p>\n<p>And so, dear reader<br \/>\nAt the last I leave you with this<br \/>\nWe have bled on paper for the last several hours<br \/>\nUnlocking the things we keep buried deep<br \/>\nI hope it was freeing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do I have to say At the end of this long journey 24 hours come and gone Now, here, at the last I am stumped I try for something in form Searching for a sentence Not wanting to rhyme But maybe just make something&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":941,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76617","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\/941"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76620,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76617\/revisions\/76620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}