{"id":87683,"date":"2021-06-26T09:23:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87683"},"modified":"2021-06-26T09:29:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:29:02","slug":"am-i-entertained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/am-i-entertained\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I Entertained?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It wasn\u2019t the way I had it imagined,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

my Death.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I had pictured something grandiose,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, white walls and a steady hum filled the room.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was empty,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

just one living soul.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I have never enjoyed poems with short lines,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

but here I am,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

writing my eulogy, with nothing coming to mind.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They remember the good things; family man, loved animals,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

you get the drill.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

it\u2019s not an accurate reflection of life, or how he cut himself with a knife.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Too real?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Too bad.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I chose this way of life,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

or death.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My death.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All rather boring, really.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It wasn\u2019t the way I had it imagined,\u00a0 my Death.\u00a0 I had pictured something grandiose,\u00a0 Instead, white walls and a steady hum filled the room.\u00a0 It was empty,\u00a0 just one living soul.\u00a0 I have never enjoyed poems with short lines,\u00a0 but here I am,\u00a0 writing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2973,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87683","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\/2973"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87813,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87683\/revisions\/87813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}