{"id":96629,"date":"2021-06-26T19:45:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T23:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=96629"},"modified":"2021-06-27T15:12:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T19:12:57","slug":"hour-11-gumboots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-11-gumboots\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 11\/ Gumboots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gumboots<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She stands in borrowed gumboots,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sunk deep in mud<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> rushing river swelling to her knees<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shaking her head<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> wishing to be somewhere, anywhere else<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fly fishing, not her choice <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">but she\u2019d lost the toss<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Next time<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> she\u2019d win <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and choose, something, anything else\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But for now\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">mind drifting, under periwinkle sky<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">she peers up at the skyscraper shaped cloud,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">craves the sourdough bread from the city bakery<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wonders if she will beat traffic to get to there<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">before the storefront sign is turned.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gumboots She stands in borrowed gumboots, Sunk deep in mud rushing river swelling to her knees Shaking her head wishing to be somewhere, anywhere else Fly fishing, not her choice but she\u2019d lost the toss Next time she\u2019d win and choose, something, anything else\u00a0 But&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96629","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\/1194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103376,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96629\/revisions\/103376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}