{"id":102707,"date":"2021-06-27T08:17:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=102707"},"modified":"2021-06-27T08:17:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:17:16","slug":"24-smiles-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/24-smiles-away\/","title":{"rendered":"#24- (s)miles Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally where I wanted to be,<\/p>\n<p>Miles away from the rest of the world,<\/p>\n<p>Always running,<\/p>\n<p>The race never really stops.<\/p>\n<p>But pause, it did,<\/p>\n<p>As if the earth was exhaling and letting go,<\/p>\n<p>Time come to a standstill,<\/p>\n<p>Much like the broken clock.<\/p>\n<p>As we laugh for long hours,<\/p>\n<p>Moving our pawns around the board,<\/p>\n<p>Hiding cards to be triumphant,<\/p>\n<p>A movie playing in the background.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the world,<\/p>\n<p>Couldn&#8217;t really enter into our neverland,<\/p>\n<p>This place we created only for ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Only for happiness and smiles.<\/p>\n<p>No other place I can name,<\/p>\n<p>That keeps me quite that safe,<\/p>\n<p>No other place like a warm embrace,<\/p>\n<p>Like sitting with my parents grinning wide&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>~thryaksha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally where I wanted to be, Miles away from the rest of the world, Always running, The race never really stops. But pause, it did, As if the earth was exhaling and letting go, Time come to a standstill, Much like the broken clock. As&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2852,"featured_media":102851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[412,127,15,10,583],"class_list":["post-102707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-family","tag-home-2","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-smile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102707","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\/2852"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102859,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102707\/revisions\/102859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}