{"id":94945,"date":"2021-06-26T17:52:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94945"},"modified":"2021-06-28T05:47:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T09:47:47","slug":"killing-two-birds-with-one-stone-hour-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/killing-two-birds-with-one-stone-hour-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing Two Birds with One Stone (Hour 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pandemic times arrived like a thief at night.<\/p>\n<p>It stole and stole and stole from us.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I can remember grandma&#8217;s voice<\/p>\n<p>saying, no pain no gain,<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what one can gain from a thief such as this pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So I count my losses, pitch my tent with the hard lessons;<\/p>\n<p>I count my gains, my gains are not on the fatal statistics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I will step forward and backward,<\/p>\n<p>cast wary looks to the left and to the right,<\/p>\n<p>and then cross that lane with vest,<\/p>\n<p>as i kill two birds with one stone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Written from Hour 9 text prompt.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pandemic times arrived like a thief at night. It stole and stole and stole from us. Now that I can remember grandma&#8217;s voice saying, no pain no gain, I wonder what one can gain from a thief such as this pandemic. &nbsp; So I count&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1389,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94945","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\/1389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94945"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103548,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94945\/revisions\/103548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}