{"id":99863,"date":"2021-06-27T01:53:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=99863"},"modified":"2021-06-27T01:53:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:53:33","slug":"the-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-call\/","title":{"rendered":"The call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel the pull, hear the siren call<br \/>\nOf books that push me into free fall,<br \/>\nNo sense of fear, or time or place<br \/>\nIn ocean abyss or the depths of space. <\/p>\n<p>I meet mercenaries, tyrants, a bloody pirate<br \/>\nDelve into a psychotic mind and yet<br \/>\nRetain my own identity.<br \/>\nIts the people, society,<br \/>\nThat cause strain<br \/>\nPressurise my poor brain,<br \/>\nSo that all day long I toil on<br \/>\nTo conform to some vague old norm:<br \/>\nOf living in pigeon-lofts in a city<br \/>\nOf losing all freedom, the elasticity<br \/>\nOf a flexible, enquiring mind. <\/p>\n<p>I work all day pounding laptop keys<br \/>\nLike a galley slave on grecian seas.<br \/>\nIts only in books that I live at ease<br \/>\nVicariously experiencing whatever I please. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel the pull, hear the siren call Of books that push me into free fall, No sense of fear, or time or place In ocean abyss or the depths of space. I meet mercenaries, tyrants, a bloody pirate Delve into a psychotic mind and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2849,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4675,2390,4301,3158],"class_list":["post-99863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2021prompt17","tag-halfmarathon","tag-halfmarathon-2021halfmarathon","tag-prompt17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99863","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\/2849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100020,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99863\/revisions\/100020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}