{"id":91938,"date":"2021-06-26T15:03:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91938"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:03:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:03:16","slug":"courting-pause-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/courting-pause-no-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Courting\/Pause No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pick a sentence<\/p>\n<p>between one and ten<\/p>\n<p>You picked the same as the last<\/p>\n<p>I can sing<\/p>\n<p>Every word you say<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I pushed a word in front of another<\/p>\n<p>Adjusted the predicate to your advantage<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve written more words<\/p>\n<p>Hidden under<\/p>\n<p>Parallel lines<\/p>\n<p>Than I have ones that are free.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I can sing<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But my dancing is miserable<\/p>\n<p>So the night<\/p>\n<p>Will not go away*<\/p>\n<p>(Pause No. 1)<\/p>\n<p>*My eyes close the tightest<\/p>\n<p>when this life is the brightest.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Philip V. Coombs 3-4am<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pick a sentence between one and ten You picked the same as the last I can sing Every word you say &nbsp; I pushed a word in front of another Adjusted the predicate to your advantage &nbsp; I\u2019ve written more words Hidden under Parallel lines&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1840,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91938","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\/1840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92700,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91938\/revisions\/92700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}