{"id":93794,"date":"2021-06-26T16:25:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=93794"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:22:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:22:12","slug":"2021-poetry-marathon-hour-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/2021-poetry-marathon-hour-8\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Poetry Marathon, Hour 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For Hour 8, I went with the text <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/the-poetry-marathon-prompts\/prompts-hour-eight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prompt<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Our Hero sets out<br \/>\non a quest<br \/>\nand has a series of wacky adventures<br \/>\nuntil we get to the end of the book<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But I\u2019ve forgotten how it ends<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Usually, I forget bits that happen<br \/>\nin the middle<br \/>\nwith all that plot happening<br \/>\nit\u2019s hard to keep track of details<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But they say the journey is the thing<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">So here I am<br \/>\nthe forgetful reader<br \/>\nremembering either how the story goes<br \/>\nor how the story ends<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Douglas Adams once said<br \/>\nof his famous 42 as the answer<br \/>\nto the question of life, the universe, and everything<br \/>\nthat we can know the question<br \/>\nor we can know the answer<br \/>\nbut we don\u2019t get to know both<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I understand now<\/p>\n<p><em>26 June 2021<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Hour 8, I went with the text prompt. Our Hero sets out on a quest and has a series of wacky adventures until we get to the end of the book But I\u2019ve forgotten how it ends Usually, I forget bits that happen in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":793,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4125,1173,154,1163],"class_list":["post-93794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2021-poetry-marathon","tag-half-marathon","tag-hour-8","tag-kevin-j-oconner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93794","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\/793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93823,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93794\/revisions\/93823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}