{"id":94710,"date":"2021-06-26T17:30:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94710"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:22:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:22:03","slug":"2021-poetry-marathon-hour-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/2021-poetry-marathon-hour-9\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Poetry Marathon, Hour 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Using the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/the-poetry-marathon-prompts\/prompts-hour-nine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">text prompt<\/a> to engage in some silliness for Hour 9.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Don\u2019t count your chickens before they hatch<br \/>\nbecause to make an omelette, you\u2019ve gotta break a few eggs<br \/>\nand that\u2019s only going to throw off your tally<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">You\u2019ve gotta walk and don\u2019t look back<br \/>\nbecause you won\u2019t see where you\u2019re going<br \/>\nand the people you run into will knock you out<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Measure twice, cut once<br \/>\nHow else are you going to confirm<br \/>\nthat you cut to the right length?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Curiosity killed the cat\u2014<br \/>\nthere was always something<br \/>\nreally wrong with that guy<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>How much wood would a woodchuck chuck<br \/>\nif a woodchuck could chuck wood?<\/i><br \/>\nis the wrong question\u2014<br \/>\nthe right question is<br \/>\n<i>Why would you create a descriptive name for something<br \/>\nthat doesn\u2019t actually describe what the thing does?<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Whoever came up with<br \/>\n<i>it ain\u2019t over until the fat lady sings<\/i><br \/>\nshould have been given a Nobel Prize<br \/>\nbecause that person discovered the secret of eternal life:<br \/>\nno opera!<\/p>\n<p><em>26 June 2021<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the text prompt to engage in some silliness for Hour 9. Don\u2019t count your chickens before they hatch because to make an omelette, you\u2019ve gotta break a few eggs and that\u2019s only going to throw off your tally You\u2019ve gotta walk and don\u2019t look&#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":[4125,1173,156,1163],"class_list":["post-94710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2021-poetry-marathon","tag-half-marathon","tag-hour-9","tag-kevin-j-oconner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94710","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=94710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94732,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94710\/revisions\/94732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}