{"id":100312,"date":"2021-06-27T02:34:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100312"},"modified":"2021-06-27T02:34:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:34:13","slug":"hour-eighteen-text-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-eighteen-text-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Eighteen, Text Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Focus<\/p>\n<p>Silence is never silent,<br \/>\nas anyone new to meditation can attest.<br \/>\nWhen forced to center within,<br \/>\nto just be still, and listen,<br \/>\neach sound magnifies,<br \/>\nbecomes central,<br \/>\ndistorts the desired calm<br \/>\nand hijacks my mind.<\/p>\n<p>The nasal whine of a buzzing mosquito<br \/>\nis suddenly a freight train,<br \/>\nair sucked through a furnace intake<br \/>\nis surf pounding on rocks to a drowner.<\/p>\n<p>I try to focus,<br \/>\npay attention to the moment,<br \/>\nbut a guitar riff from a neighbor&#8217;s radio<br \/>\nand veeeewpewpewpew, I&#8217;m gone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focus Silence is never silent, as anyone new to meditation can attest. When forced to center within, to just be still, and listen, each sound magnifies, becomes central, distorts the desired calm and hijacks my mind. The nasal whine of a buzzing mosquito is suddenly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100312","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100400,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100312\/revisions\/100400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}