{"id":4583,"date":"2012-03-21T18:30:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T22:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsroundup.com\/wp\/?p=4583"},"modified":"2012-03-21T18:30:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T22:30:37","slug":"late-afternoon-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=4583","title":{"rendered":"Late Afternoon Haiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Afternoon ahead<br \/>\nstretches with many options<br \/>\nFirst I&#8217;ll sip my tea.<\/p>\n<p>A block of sharp cheese<br \/>\nSome crackers, salty and crisp<br \/>\nto stave off dinner.<\/p>\n<p>The phone is ringing.<br \/>\nThe voice unhuman goes on.<br \/>\nHang up, but on whom?<\/p>\n<p>no rhyme? no problem<br \/>\nno rhythm? no worries there.<br \/>\nJust write it all down.<\/p>\n<p>(above is my response to @neilhimself who wrote: Tried to write a funny tweet that rhymed about sending Roller Derby TeamUSA to the White House  t.co\/595OH1wN #worldpoetrydayfail )<\/p>\n<p>Indecisiveness.<br \/>\nThe afternoon is weighted,<br \/>\nawaiting a sign.<\/p>\n<p>words emerging black<br \/>\nfrom keyboard to open screen<br \/>\ntoday&#8217;s blank white sheet.<\/p>\n<p>Fingers pause while brain<br \/>\nrummages for what comes next<br \/>\nthen blurts out to screen.<\/p>\n<p>Time to do something<br \/>\nthat isn&#8217;t just pretending<br \/>\nTo do something else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afternoon ahead \u2022 stretches with many options \u2022 First I&#8217;ll sip my tea. <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=4583\">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":[38],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-4583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quilting","tag-work-the-dayjobkind"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-1bV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583","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=4583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4585,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions\/4585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}