{"id":401,"date":"2026-09-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/?p=401"},"modified":"2026-09-20T19:17:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T00:17:46","slug":"marching-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/21\/marching-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Marching Band"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marching band is a beautiful game<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It taught me what it means to have discipline<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To work hard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marching band is something I have spilled<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blood, sweat, and tears for<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quite literally<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marching band is a beautiful game<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s the soreness of your muscles<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the sound of the metronome running in your head<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even at random places like history class or Walmart<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The click click click of the beat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And feet stepping with it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The music ringing in my ears<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Dut dut dut&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marching band is a beautiful game<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That has changed me as a person<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I think it&#8217;s for the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marching band is a beautiful game It taught me what it means to have discipline To work hard Marching band is something I have spilled Blood, sweat, and tears for Quite literally Marching band is a beautiful game It&#8217;s the soreness of your muscles And the sound of the metronome running in your head Even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,110],"tags":[6,104,36,111],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-me","category-poetry","tag-about-me","tag-band","tag-carolyn","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}