{"id":88124,"date":"2021-06-26T09:53:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=88124"},"modified":"2021-06-26T09:54:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:54:15","slug":"skay-2021-hour-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/skay-2021-hour-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Skay 2021 Hour One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hour One<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New endings<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Weeds, uprooted,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wilt in the wheelbarrow<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And I clatter it down\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the garden path<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To the green waste bin<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I know its fate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every day new weeds\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With a stubborn will\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To survive<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every day I yank them<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Out with viciousness<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And send them on\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Their journey<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is that their new purpose in life?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To become compost<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like most of us,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And sustain new fruits?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every day I weed a bit<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every day I create\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Create new little endings<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To feed new fruit<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour One &nbsp; New endings &nbsp; Weeds, uprooted,\u00a0 Wilt in the wheelbarrow And I clatter it down\u00a0 the garden path To the green waste bin I know its fate. &nbsp; Every day new weeds\u00a0 With a stubborn will\u00a0 To survive Every day I yank them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88124","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\/1404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88151,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88124\/revisions\/88151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}