{"id":106613,"date":"2022-06-25T09:24:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=106613"},"modified":"2022-06-25T09:25:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:25:43","slug":"hour-1-we-are-all-students-of-life-anne-coen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-1-we-are-all-students-of-life-anne-coen\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 1 \u201cWe are all students of life.\u201d Anne Coen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open mind sets welcome creativity inside.<\/p>\n<p>Closed minds are on a trap like the Staten Island Expressway on any give day.<\/p>\n<p>A new language, new religion, a song in two different languages crosses boundaries not barricaded in prejudices.<\/p>\n<p>We are never too old to learn something new, open a book be embraced by cultures. Discover something, someone different from ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>My Junior High crush had me fall in love with Italy. Napoledons with big Roman noses.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-five years later I still think of Frankie. Whenever Italian is spoken, tomato sauce fragrances Sunday morning air, gentle kisses on my cheek in hellos, olive skin dark and smooth with almond shaped eyes.<\/p>\n<p>This book opened me and never collected dust on life\u2019s shelf.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open mind sets welcome creativity inside. Closed minds are on a trap like the Staten Island Expressway on any give day. A new language, new religion, a song in two different languages crosses boundaries not barricaded in prejudices. We are never too old to learn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106613","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\/4331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106820,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106613\/revisions\/106820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}