{"id":88240,"date":"2021-06-26T10:01:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=88240"},"modified":"2021-06-26T10:01:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:01:29","slug":"the-music-said-i-could-1-2-hour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-music-said-i-could-1-2-hour-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Music Said I Could (1\/2 &#8211; Hour 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michellia Wilson<br \/>\nPoetry Marathon 2021 \u2013 Hour 2 of 12<\/p>\n<p>THE MUSIC SAID I COULD<\/p>\n<p>The knurled round knob proved to be easier to turn than I imagined.<br \/>\nThe dial with a red pointer oscillating left, then right&#8230;<br \/>\nand then it happened&#8230;<br \/>\nThe sadness I had bottled up for weeks ignited when the drum riffs began&#8230;<br \/>\nOver old scratchy speakers&#8230;<br \/>\nOld music player..<br \/>\nOld music,<br \/>\nOld person listening&#8230;<br \/>\nI am one of those people who will make it necessary to ban weapons from all the mentally ill&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8217;cause those songs create my own insane brand of checks and balances;<br \/>\nthe outcome is always &#8211;<br \/>\nI am less than equal.<br \/>\nIn an equally insane society, the weak must be eradicated.<br \/>\nAsk the painfully thin humans<br \/>\nIssues blue striped pajamas,<br \/>\nThey we&#8217;re deemed less than&#8230;<br \/>\nI am ready. The music told me so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michellia Wilson Poetry Marathon 2021 \u2013 Hour 2 of 12 THE MUSIC SAID I COULD The knurled round knob proved to be easier to turn than I imagined. The dial with a red pointer oscillating left, then right&#8230; and then it happened&#8230; The sadness I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88240","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88316,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88240\/revisions\/88316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}