{"id":77475,"date":"2020-06-27T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=77475"},"modified":"2020-06-29T12:54:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T16:54:25","slug":"restless-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/restless-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Restless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the moist black hours<br \/>\nof midnight sleep<br \/>\nthe wind pushed in<br \/>\nwith sudden force,<br \/>\nswept up the dusty ground<br \/>\nlike a broom.<\/p>\n<p>Forced out of their secret corners,<br \/>\nunder a canopy of pines,<br \/>\nthe mice stormed by trailer.<br \/>\nThey scurried up my tires<br \/>\nand invaded through invisible cracks.<\/p>\n<p>Their evidence is clear\u2014<br \/>\ntiny black droppings in drawers,<br \/>\nand footprints forgotten<br \/>\nin the dust outside.<\/p>\n<p>So today, by gulps of caffeine,<br \/>\nand the frantic motion<br \/>\nof my pen across paper,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll try once again to scrub them away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the moist black hours of midnight sleep the wind pushed in with sudden force, swept up the dusty ground like a broom. Forced out of their secret corners, under a canopy of pines, the mice stormed by trailer. They scurried up my tires and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77475","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\/1502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77480,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77475\/revisions\/77480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}