{"id":100074,"date":"2021-06-27T01:59:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100074"},"modified":"2021-06-29T10:37:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T14:37:15","slug":"casting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/casting\/","title":{"rendered":"Casting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/eirik-skarstein-h05m6ZoZvyI-unsplash-scaled-1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-99715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/eirik-skarstein-h05m6ZoZvyI-unsplash-scaled-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/eirik-skarstein-h05m6ZoZvyI-unsplash-scaled-1-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/eirik-skarstein-h05m6ZoZvyI-unsplash-scaled-1-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/eirik-skarstein-h05m6ZoZvyI-unsplash-scaled-1-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/eirik-skarstein-h05m6ZoZvyI-unsplash-scaled-1-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/eirik-skarstein-h05m6ZoZvyI-unsplash-scaled-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>There is no fascination.<br \/>\nlike that of<br \/>\nobserving shadows<\/p>\n<p>even as a child the idea of<br \/>\nlight playing<br \/>\nwith objects and time<br \/>\nwas more than<br \/>\nsimple diversion<\/p>\n<p>As a kid spending summers<br \/>\nat grandparent\u2019s<br \/>\nlake home<br \/>\nmy east-facing room<br \/>\nbeckoned each morning to<br \/>\nmake an appearance<\/p>\n<p>I came to see mornings as<br \/>\nwelcome respite from<br \/>\nwasteful sleep<br \/>\nmarveling at the<br \/>\nbirch-tree-kabuki-cum<br \/>\nwakeup call<\/p>\n<p>I knew every nook of<br \/>\nthe birch stand<br \/>\nright outside that window<br \/>\nand often woke to<br \/>\ndancing leaves on my<br \/>\npillow<br \/>\nforever endowing me<br \/>\nwith the joy<br \/>\nthat can only be found<br \/>\nin knowing that<br \/>\nthe sun<br \/>\nand its friends the<br \/>\nshadows<br \/>\nwere willing, gracious<br \/>\nplaymates<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u2013 Mark L. Lucker<br \/>\n\u00a9 2021<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd  <\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no fascination. like that of observing shadows even as a child the idea of light playing with objects and time was more than simple diversion As a kid spending summers at grandparent\u2019s lake home my east-facing room beckoned each morning to make an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4677,4675],"class_list":["post-100074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2020hour17","tag-2021prompt17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100074"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103750,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100074\/revisions\/103750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}