{"id":2985,"date":"2011-04-19T10:13:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T14:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsroundup.com\/wp\/?p=2985"},"modified":"2014-01-07T19:56:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T00:56:40","slug":"national-poetry-day-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=2985","title":{"rendered":"National Poetry Month Day #19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prompt at <a href=\"http:\/\/notwithoutpoetry.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/18\/prompt-19-lightbulbs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Not Without Poetry<\/a> was to write about an ah ha moment &#8211; those times when the lightbulb goes off over your head.  Thought I&#8217;d share here something written earlier while I ponder that.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Morning Commute<\/p>\n<p>The coffee kicks in.<br \/>\nMy age this year<br \/>\nis a speed limit.<br \/>\nHa! Does it hold me back?<br \/>\nSometimes I&#8217;m faster<br \/>\nSometimes I&#8217;m slower<br \/>\nSometimes I&#8217;m the only traveller<br \/>\nAlone on the road.<\/p>\n<p>I near my off-ramp<br \/>\nI see more or less of my days<br \/>\nas the road goes ahead<br \/>\nstraight or curving<br \/>\nSometimes I&#8217;m only a traveller<br \/>\nand the road my familiar. <\/p>\n<p>Mary Beth Frezon November 2009<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prompt at Not Without Poetry was to write about an ah ha moment &#8211; those times when the lightbulb goes off over your head. Thought I&#8217;d share here something written earlier while I ponder that. Morning Commute The coffee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=2985\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12,65,66],"tags":[521,542],"class_list":["post-2985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deadlines","category-napowrimo","category-national-haiku-day","tag-deadlines","tag-national-haiku-day"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-M9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2985"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9865,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions\/9865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}