{"id":8295,"date":"2015-06-13T13:16:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T17:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=8295"},"modified":"2015-06-13T13:16:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T17:16:45","slug":"5-poetry-marathon-times-a-changin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/5-poetry-marathon-times-a-changin\/","title":{"rendered":"# 5 poetry marathon: Times&#8217; a changin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the hustle and bustle rushed by,<br \/>\nseveral actors trying to reach their rehearsalgot lost.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;what happened to that seedy restaurant?&#8221;<br \/>\nThis square as remembered was a bit more dark, dirty with specific cast of characters of its own.<\/p>\n<p>Not this multicolored, flashy, overcrowded shopping mall square.<\/p>\n<p>The square used to hold an essence of character:<br \/>\nwhen you would walk to the train. hail a cab, or see a show.<\/p>\n<p>It was a place to encounter but never dwell upon a resting post.<\/p>\n<p>Even the musicals seem vaguely familiar&#8230;.yet the story is buried upon all the colorful costumes, sets, and overly dramatic acting.<\/p>\n<p>This place&#8230;.has lost its gritty character full of obscure smells and sounds.<\/p>\n<p>As Marlon Brando, Vivian Leigh, and Frank Sinatra reentered their hotel suites and contemplate their day in a city and industry that seems far away from the times of their stardom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the hustle and bustle rushed by, several actors trying to reach their rehearsalgot lost. &#8220;what happened to that seedy restaurant?&#8221; This square as remembered was a bit more dark, dirty with specific cast of characters of its own. Not this multicolored, flashy, overcrowded shopping&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8295","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8420,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8295\/revisions\/8420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}