{"id":983,"date":"2017-01-03T16:24:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T16:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/wordpress_marcus\/?p=983"},"modified":"2024-08-19T15:47:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:47:11","slug":"poem-of-the-month-january-2017-markitos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"Poem of the Month, January 2017: Markitos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MARKITOS<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;<\/em><em>Think of yourself, Markitos&#8217; &#8211;<br \/>\n<\/em>I was warmly tucked in bed<br \/>\nwhen Amida put these words<br \/>\ninto my woolly head.<\/p>\n<p>Help me, Master, help me!<br \/>\nI had murmured in distress,<br \/>\nwrestling with my pillow<br \/>\nin a bloody awful mess.<\/p>\n<p>His answer reassured me.<br \/>\nI rolled over on my side,<br \/>\nsurprise and satisfaction<br \/>\nimpossible to hide.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Think of myself&#8217; &#8211;<\/em>\u00a0Permission<br \/>\nto snooze for another hour?<br \/>\nBask in Love&#8217;s latent glory?<br \/>\nSurrender to Other Power?<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I am up now<br \/>\nand the autumn sky is blue.<br \/>\nPlease read this little poem<br \/>\nif you&#8217;ve nothing else to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARKITOS &#8216;Think of yourself, Markitos&#8217; &#8211; I was warmly tucked in bed when Amida put these words into my woolly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}