{"id":100208,"date":"2021-06-27T02:27:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100208"},"modified":"2021-06-27T02:27:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:27:06","slug":"just-be-still-and-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/just-be-still-and-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"just be still, and listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>just be still, and listen<br \/>\nlay under the waning super moon<br \/>\nand listen to moonbeams scratch the surface<br \/>\nof the itch on your back<br \/>\nwhile the grass grows<br \/>\nand the grasshoppers pack their bags too<br \/>\ntomorrow we&#8217;re going to follow the itch<br \/>\nto the Badlands<br \/>\nbut tonight<br \/>\njust be still, and listen<br \/>\nto the dreams of the ones<br \/>\nwho sleep in their cars down by the river<br \/>\nand cast fishing lines into the water<br \/>\ntelling their fish tales and wish tales<br \/>\nto anyone who<br \/>\nwill just be still, and listen<br \/>\nwhile the teenage one across the street<br \/>\nsneaks into their own backyard<br \/>\nthrough a gate that squeaks with the walk of shame<br \/>\nbut if you listen close<br \/>\nhas a different name<br \/>\nfirst love, for real, for feels, for deals<br \/>\nwith the only one who listens<\/p>\n<p>just be still, and listen<br \/>\njust be listen, and still<br \/>\nrearrange the letters of listen<br \/>\nsilent;<br \/>\nlisten,<br \/>\nstill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>just be still, and listen lay under the waning super moon and listen to moonbeams scratch the surface of the itch on your back while the grass grows and the grasshoppers pack their bags too tomorrow we&#8217;re going to follow the itch to the Badlands&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100208","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\/803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100343,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100208\/revisions\/100343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}