{"id":92241,"date":"2021-06-26T14:27:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=92241"},"modified":"2021-06-26T14:27:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T18:27:51","slug":"the-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can not run<br \/>\nI can not hide<br \/>\nI can not go down a children\u2019s slide<\/p>\n<p>You can do this and I can do that<br \/>\nWhat I can do, others can not<br \/>\nI can race across a hot parking lot<\/p>\n<p>Both of your feet would blister and burn<br \/>\nThose with two legs, two feet and a spine<br \/>\nCould never keep up with these two wheels of mine<\/p>\n<p>As you lumber to find your way<br \/>\nOne foot down and the other just so<br \/>\nI\u2019m wheeling round and round, to and fro<\/p>\n<p>To soar like a king or dance like a queen<br \/>\nMoving across that marbled dance floor<br \/>\nI can keep going and want more and more<\/p>\n<p>When \u2018ere your limbs become leaden and sore<br \/>\nMine do not tire, I do not fret<br \/>\nMy legs do not cramp when riding a jet<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s blessed that I am and blessed that I\u2019ll be<br \/>\n\u2019Tis only at night when the whippoorwill calls<br \/>\nthat I honestly don\u2019t think about it much, at all<\/p>\n<p>In that darkest of dark within nights deepest night<br \/>\nWhen my soul soars forth and struggles to fly<br \/>\nIt\u2019s only then I look down and wonder why<\/p>\n<p>What did I do to earn such a fate<br \/>\nTo all I am kind, loving and fair<br \/>\nThen why am I tied to this blasted wheelchair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can not run I can not hide I can not go down a children\u2019s slide You can do this and I can do that What I can do, others can not I can race across a hot parking lot Both of your feet would&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92241","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\/795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92251,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92241\/revisions\/92251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}