{"id":98917,"date":"2021-06-26T23:35:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T03:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98917"},"modified":"2021-06-26T23:35:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T03:35:40","slug":"hour-fifteen-yes-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-fifteen-yes-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Fifteen, Yes Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sister Act<\/p>\n<p>I love to sing the blues,<br \/>\nbut few will ever hear me.<\/p>\n<p>As a senior in high school<br \/>\nI prepared for months<br \/>\nfor my school&#8217;s annual talent show,<br \/>\ndetermined I would sing Sister<br \/>\nfrom The Color Purple.<\/p>\n<p>The day for auditions finally came,<br \/>\nthe dress, hair, stage makeup,<br \/>\nvoice exercises, music tape,<br \/>\nall ready, prepared,<br \/>\nas prepared as my terrified<br \/>\nheart could be.<\/p>\n<p>I stepped on stage,<br \/>\ncued the music,<br \/>\nand listened, horrified, when<br \/>\nit began too loud.<br \/>\nI sang anyway, sang<br \/>\nas loud as I could.<\/p>\n<p>Halfway through the third line,<br \/>\nthe music stopped,<br \/>\nand a voice from the dark said<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, we just can&#8217;t hear you,&#8221;<br \/>\nand I ran from the stage, mortified.<\/p>\n<p>One judge followed me,<br \/>\nboth a teacher and a friend,<br \/>\nand begged me to come back<br \/>\nand try again.<\/p>\n<p>I would not.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe anything would have come<br \/>\nfrom singing for me but the pleasure<br \/>\nof it alone, but<br \/>\nI will forever regret not returning<br \/>\nto that stage,<br \/>\nnot trying once again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sister Act I love to sing the blues, but few will ever hear me. As a senior in high school I prepared for months for my school&#8217;s annual talent show, determined I would sing Sister from The Color Purple. The day for auditions finally came,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98917","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99004,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98917\/revisions\/99004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}