{"id":94610,"date":"2021-06-26T17:22:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94610"},"modified":"2021-06-26T17:57:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:57:26","slug":"now-is-not-the-time-hour-9-half-marathon-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/now-is-not-the-time-hour-9-half-marathon-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Now is not the Time  (Hour 9 Half Marathon 2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now is not the Time<\/p>\n<p>(Hour 9 Half Marathon 2021)<\/p>\n<p>The doorbell rings<br \/>\nThe phone rings<br \/>\nI choose to stay<br \/>\nWhere I am<br \/>\nNow is not the time for action<\/p>\n<p>We think of love as passion<br \/>\nWhat if we love inaction<br \/>\nYou say it is time to move on<br \/>\nI say moving on is out of fashion<br \/>\nYou want me to get up and face the music<br \/>\nBut music is not a fact to face<br \/>\nNow is not the time to dance fantastic<\/p>\n<p>I think placing your needs above mine<br \/>\nIs a thoughtless crime<br \/>\nAnd just because everything in the house<br \/>\nIs telling us there is a fire<br \/>\nI don\u2019t smell any smoke<br \/>\nAs I begin to cough and choke<br \/>\nNow is not the time<\/p>\n<p>You tie a string around my pinky<br \/>\nSo I will not forget<br \/>\nI see the string and get all panicky<br \/>\nI forget what you said about regret<br \/>\nIf I refuse to move to your beat<br \/>\nI don\u2019t feel the passion well up in my breast<br \/>\nAnd everything is pointless after a point<br \/>\nWe are well beyond the point, that point<br \/>\nNow is not the time to meet you in the dark<\/p>\n<p>Now is not the time to meet you in the park for a picnic<br \/>\nIf that is what the string was for<br \/>\nI am stopped at the door<br \/>\nMy feet are stuck to the floor<br \/>\nThe ants you bring back with my uneaten<br \/>\nRotting portion of the food<br \/>\nYou contrived<br \/>\nAre on the make to thrive<br \/>\nOnly the strong can survive<br \/>\nYou want to talk some more<br \/>\nNow is not the time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now is not the Time (Hour 9 Half Marathon 2021) The doorbell rings The phone rings I choose to stay Where I am Now is not the time for action We think of love as passion What if we love inaction You say it is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2879,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94610","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\/2879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94975,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94610\/revisions\/94975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}