{"id":92694,"date":"2021-06-26T15:07:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=92694"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:07:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:07:16","slug":"hour-7-should-this-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-7-should-this-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 7-Should This Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should this poem be flippant?<\/p>\n<p>Carefree?<\/p>\n<p>Lazy?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe funny?<\/p>\n<p>Or should it be dark?<\/p>\n<p>Depressive?<\/p>\n<p>Full of death and anger?<\/p>\n<p>Should this poem rhyme?<\/p>\n<p>Should it sing?<\/p>\n<p>Should the metaphors jump from the page<\/p>\n<p>and run around the room?<\/p>\n<p>Should this poem pull me into the grave?<\/p>\n<p>Pull my grief outwards?<\/p>\n<p>Until tears flow and my heart aches?<\/p>\n<p>Must this poem be anything at all?<\/p>\n<p>Can it just be itself?<\/p>\n<p>Tired and muddy<\/p>\n<p>Wordless and tone-deaf.<\/p>\n<p>Why does a poem<\/p>\n<p>Need to be anything at all?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should this poem be flippant? Carefree? Lazy? Maybe funny? Or should it be dark? Depressive? Full of death and anger? Should this poem rhyme? Should it sing? Should the metaphors jump from the page and run around the room? Should this poem pull me into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92694","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92767,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92694\/revisions\/92767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}