{"id":106467,"date":"2022-06-25T09:55:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=106467"},"modified":"2022-07-17T12:22:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T16:22:31","slug":"the-wait-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-wait-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alone?<br \/>\nNo! I feel a presence<br \/>\njust as I feel with my eyes closed<br \/>\nWater!<br \/>\nAll around me<br \/>\nAm I drowning?<br \/>\nSlowly&#8230;<br \/>\nbound, tied<br \/>\nyet safe<br \/>\nand floating free&#8230;<br \/>\nDead?<br \/>\nHow did I get here?<br \/>\nI forget&#8230;<br \/>\nWas I always here?<br \/>\nIn parts maybe&#8230;<br \/>\nstriving hard to be whole<br \/>\nas I float to find my bearing<br \/>\nand my body<br \/>\nand life itself<br \/>\nI hear the song of the universe<br \/>\nor is that now a lullaby?<br \/>\nso far, yet so near<br \/>\nOr is it the other way around?<br \/>\nThere is darkness!<br \/>\nThere is light!<br \/>\nAnd there is water!<br \/>\nFor now, this is what I call Mother!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alone? No! I feel a presence just as I feel with my eyes closed Water! All around me Am I drowning? Slowly&#8230; bound, tied yet safe and floating free&#8230; Dead? How did I get here? I forget&#8230; Was I always here? In parts maybe&#8230; striving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3065,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4909,2137],"class_list":["post-106467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2022halfmarathon","tag-hour1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106467","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\/3065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124978,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106467\/revisions\/124978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}