{"id":94498,"date":"2021-06-26T17:20:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94498"},"modified":"2021-06-26T17:20:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:20:11","slug":"the-early-bird-eats-the-worm-thepoetrymarathon-prompthournine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-early-bird-eats-the-worm-thepoetrymarathon-prompthournine\/","title":{"rendered":"The early bird eats the worm #thepoetrymarathon #prompthournine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I look hard enough<\/p>\n<p>I see you<\/p>\n<p>striding\u00a0along the path<\/p>\n<p>your denim shorts and white shirt<\/p>\n<p>striking among a sea<\/p>\n<p>of walkers.<\/p>\n<p>As your pace quickens,<\/p>\n<p>I fall behind<\/p>\n<p>till you come back around.<\/p>\n<p>I toy with a stone<\/p>\n<p>watch the crows<\/p>\n<p>flapping\u00a0about.<\/p>\n<p>The early birds eats the worm,<\/p>\n<p>isn\u2019t that what you told me?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Coming back to where I was, or am now,<\/p>\n<p>waiting\u00a0for you to come around<\/p>\n<p>and call out,<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if your skies<\/p>\n<p>are just as blue<\/p>\n<p>or as colourless, or grey<\/p>\n<p>or as smog-ridden<\/p>\n<p>on a winter\u2019s day?<\/p>\n<p>Does the bougainvillea<\/p>\n<p>sweep the pond,<\/p>\n<p>do cold morning drafts<\/p>\n<p>rustle your thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>Early birds and all that jazz, you used to say.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder who is eating the worm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I look hard enough I see you striding\u00a0along the path your denim shorts and white shirt striking among a sea of walkers. As your pace quickens, I fall behind till you come back around. I toy with a stone watch the crows flapping\u00a0about. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4101,15,10],"class_list":["post-94498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2021poetrymarathon","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94498","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\/1620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94601,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94498\/revisions\/94601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}