{"id":95293,"date":"2021-06-26T18:13:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=95293"},"modified":"2021-06-26T18:13:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T22:13:07","slug":"finals-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/finals-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Finals Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it may not be official<br \/>\nit\u2019s the sweetest holiday to me<br \/>\nthe final week of classes<br \/>\nbefore winter break<\/p>\n<p>The clackity-clack of the keys<br \/>\nas students pound out<br \/>\ntheir final thoughts<br \/>\ndocumenting sources MLA<\/p>\n<p>One by one<br \/>\nthey shuffle to the printer<br \/>\nas it moans under the workload<br \/>\nhundreds of mediocre pages<\/p>\n<p>The celebratory mini-stapler<br \/>\nmy name and office number<br \/>\ninked on its side<br \/>\nclip-pips another masterpiece<\/p>\n<p><em>Nicely done<\/em>, I say<br \/>\nwith a handshake, hug, high-five<br \/>\n<em>Have a wonderful break<br \/>\nYou deserve it!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What surprises me most<br \/>\nis how some hang back<br \/>\nunable to end it all<br \/>\nby walking out the door<\/p>\n<p>They linger, chat about what\u2019s next<br \/>\nsimply want to hold timeless<br \/>\nthe comfort of the familiar<br \/>\nthe known<\/p>\n<p><em>Get on with your life<\/em>, I say<br \/>\nShooing them out the door<\/p>\n<p>The greatest celebration<br \/>\nisn\u2019t that they\u2019re gone<br \/>\nbut knowing they have<br \/>\nmoved on<\/p>\n<p>[Prompt 10: Write poem about any holiday in December\/early January.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it may not be official it\u2019s the sweetest holiday to me the final week of classes before winter break The clackity-clack of the keys as students pound out their final thoughts documenting sources MLA One by one they shuffle to the printer as it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95293","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\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95319,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95293\/revisions\/95319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}