{"id":2252,"date":"2014-05-23T02:23:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T02:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2017-07-12T00:44:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T00:44:20","slug":"the-horn-blows-at-midnight-by-howie-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-horn-blows-at-midnight-by-howie-good\/","title":{"rendered":"The Horn Blows at Midnight by Howie Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/stars2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1599 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/stars2-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"stars2\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/stars2-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/stars2-1024x831.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/stars2.jpg 1063w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/243;\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Horn Blows at Midnight<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Howie Good<\/p>\n<p>Beckmann, half his face left unfinished,<br \/>\nsitting in a sun-flooded room with a little cat,<br \/>\ngrimly eyeing a trumpet he holds<br \/>\nas if wondering whether to sound it.<\/p>\n<p>But that was years ago.<br \/>\nThe toot came out nice and round.<br \/>\nStrange black flowers painted<br \/>\non the sky by bursting ack-ack.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I will try again for the music.<br \/>\nName a capital of a country.<br \/>\nChange the first letter to name<br \/>\na familiar musical instrument.<\/p>\n<p>Example: Lima = limp, limb, lime<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Howie Good&#8217;s latest book of poetry collection is <em>The Complete Absence of Twilight<\/em> (2014) from MadHat Press. He co-edits White Knuckle Press with Dale Wisely, who does most of the real work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howie Good&#8217;s latest book of poetry collection is The Complete Absence of Twilight (2014) from MadHat Press. He co-edits White Knuckle Press with Dale Wisely, who does most of the real work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-about-poetry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}