{"id":94939,"date":"2021-06-26T17:46:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94939"},"modified":"2021-07-17T11:59:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T15:59:19","slug":"hour-9-siren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-9-siren\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 9: Siren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a long pause<br \/>\nNose downward,<br \/>\nWatching waves polish<br \/>\nHer feet, lick at her ankles<br \/>\nRepeatedly, a clock\u2019s tongue,<br \/>\nThe background hum of sea<br \/>\nEchoing some famous adagio,<br \/>\nAnd my round reddening belly,<br \/>\nPatient as one of those<br \/>\nSmirking stone buddhas,<br \/>\nYet desperate for her answer,<br \/>\nShe at last mumbled,<br \/>\n\u201cMaybe once in a blue moon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looking back,<br \/>\nI don\u2019t think she knew<br \/>\nThe weight of that phrase,<br \/>\nMassive as the gravity<br \/>\nThat yanks salty tides,<br \/>\nInto which she lurched,<br \/>\nBobbing up a second later<br \/>\nBeckoning me in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long pause Nose downward, Watching waves polish Her feet, lick at her ankles Repeatedly, a clock\u2019s tongue, The background hum of sea Echoing some famous adagio, And my round reddening belly, Patient as one of those Smirking stone buddhas, Yet desperate for her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94939","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\/1246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104469,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94939\/revisions\/104469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}