{"id":99682,"date":"2021-06-27T01:55:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=99682"},"modified":"2021-06-27T02:02:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:02:05","slug":"book-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/book-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">Prompt for Hour Seventeen<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Books and people are nearly the same.<\/p>\n<p>Books just like people have lots they can claim.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Turning a page is like asking a question.<\/p>\n<p>A person like a book has a secret confession.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reading a book&#8217;s like listening too.<\/p>\n<p>But reading is better cause memories misconstrue<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A friend is a book and a book is a friend.<\/p>\n<p>Book friends keep their words right up to the end.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A story can change when the truth seems too deadly.<\/p>\n<p>A book keeps its story ironically, readily.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If I were to need to make a choice between two.<\/p>\n<p>A book I would choose,\u00a0 cause it needn&#8217;t choose you.<\/p>\n<header><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\">Books were safer than other people anyway. ~Neil Gaiman~&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><span class=\"posted-on\">Posted on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/the-poetry-marathon-prompts\/prompt-for-hour-seventeen-5\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">June 27, 2021 1:00am EDT<\/a><\/span><span class=\"byline\">\u00a0by\u00a0<span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/author\/the-poetry-marathon-prompts\/\">The Poetry Marathon<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Text Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Use one of these quotes as a jumping off point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.\u201d \u2013 Natalie Diaz<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI stopped thinking about extreme grief as the sole vehicle for great art when the grief started to take people with it.\u201d \u2013 Hanif Abdurraqib<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBooks were safer than other people anyway.\u201d\u00a0 \u2013 Neil Gaiman<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt for Hour Seventeen &nbsp; Books and people are nearly the same. Books just like people have lots they can claim. &nbsp; Turning a page is like asking a question. A person like a book has a secret confession. &nbsp; Reading a book&#8217;s like listening&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99682","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\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99682"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100108,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99682\/revisions\/100108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}