{"id":122,"date":"2020-03-24T04:47:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T04:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/chapter\/poem-prayers-of-steel\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T16:13:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T16:13:07","slug":"poem-prayers-of-steel","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/chapter\/poem-prayers-of-steel\/","title":{"raw":"Poem: Prayers of Steel","rendered":"Poem: Prayers of Steel"},"content":{"raw":"<strong>Prayers of Steel\n<\/strong><strong>Author<\/strong>: Carl Sandburg\n\u00a91918\n<div>\n<div>\n\nLay&nbsp;me on an anvil, O God.\nBeat me and hammer me into a crowbar.\nLet me pry loose old walls.\nLet me lift and loosen old foundations.\nLay me on an anvil, O God.\nBeat me and hammer me into a steel spike.\nDrive me into the girders that hold a skyscraper together.\nTake red-hot rivets and fasten me into the central girders.\nLet me be the great nail holding a skyscraper through blue nights\ninto white stars.\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","rendered":"<p><strong>Prayers of Steel<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Author<\/strong>: Carl Sandburg<br \/>\n\u00a91918<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Lay&nbsp;me on an anvil, O God.<br \/>\nBeat me and hammer me into a crowbar.<br \/>\nLet me pry loose old walls.<br \/>\nLet me lift and loosen old foundations.<br \/>\nLay me on an anvil, O God.<br \/>\nBeat me and hammer me into a steel spike.<br \/>\nDrive me into the girders that hold a skyscraper together.<br \/>\nTake red-hot rivets and fasten me into the central girders.<br \/>\nLet me be the great nail holding a skyscraper through blue nights<br \/>\ninto white stars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"menu_order":18,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-122","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":85,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/122\/revisions\/123"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/85"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/122\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/accintrotocreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}