{"id":101118,"date":"2021-06-27T04:15:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T08:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101118"},"modified":"2021-06-27T04:15:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T08:15:27","slug":"late-night-victory-lap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/late-night-victory-lap\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Night Victory Lap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hour 12, Prompt 20, Year 2021 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As I plod through my last poem of the year<br \/>\nI\u2019m thinking a lot about what comes after<br \/>\nA quiet cheer as my love and I leave our easy chairs<br \/>\nThe desire to move around, finally in reach<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a cool, breezy night out here<br \/>\nThe kind that prompts a midnight victory lap<br \/>\nOut into the night, we will step<br \/>\nWalking the length of our backyard<br \/>\nTaking in the fresh air, healing our headaches<br \/>\nHand in hand, watching the stars<br \/>\nThen slowly, as we sketch out the Dipper<br \/>\nWe\u2019ll begin to discuss what we wrote<br \/>\nLight and heavy poetry alike<br \/>\nHow we felt, where we faltered, where we grew<br \/>\nGrateful for the ability to write, to imagine<br \/>\nTo be human<br \/>\nThen we\u2019ll come back to a warm mug of tea and a shower<br \/>\nMaybe some dark chocolate if we feel indulgent<br \/>\nAnd as we slowly fade away under our covers<br \/>\nWe\u2019ll already be dreaming about the year to come <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour 12, Prompt 20, Year 2021 As I plod through my last poem of the year I\u2019m thinking a lot about what comes after A quiet cheer as my love and I leave our easy chairs The desire to move around, finally in reach It\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101118","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\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101122,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101118\/revisions\/101122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}