{"id":90228,"date":"2021-06-26T12:24:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90228"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:24:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:24:32","slug":"the-to-do-list-hour-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-to-do-list-hour-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The To-Do List -Hour 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Mounds of fresh tomatoes\r\nBasins of crayfish\r\nWaist beads of various colors \r\nFifty naira a packet\r\nMarket women peddling their goods\r\nArms grabbing and waving me over\r\n\"Aunty come and buy this one\"\r\nThe scent of goat meat wafts through the air\r\nThe butcher carving his meat\r\nFlip flops slap against the back of my heel\r\nAs I weave between, kiosk after kiosk\r\nThe scorching sun on my back and neck\r\nMoist palms from the heat\r\n\"Ada carry this bag\"\r\nI look at her with spite for not offering to take it from me \r\nHer retched braids with their seams undone\r\nFinger across her forehead\r\nAnd in one smooth motion\r\nWipes the sweat off her brows\r\nWith a small smile she says\r\n\"Let's go home\"\r\nAnd I agree with her\r\nAfter all, tomorrow is another day (Last line from <em>Gone with the wind<\/em>, Margaret Mitchell)<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mounds of fresh tomatoes Basins of crayfish Waist beads of various colors Fifty naira a packet Market women peddling their goods Arms grabbing and waving me over &#8220;Aunty come and buy this one&#8221; The scent of goat meat wafts through the air The butcher carving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90228","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\/3687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90406,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90228\/revisions\/90406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}