{"id":106704,"date":"2022-06-25T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=106704"},"modified":"2022-07-14T21:29:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T01:29:15","slug":"ode-to-a-water-lily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/ode-to-a-water-lily\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to a Water Lily &#8211; Hour 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-106739\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3799-Waterlilies-on-Wooden-Paddle-Acrylic-on-Wood-9-x-52-inches-Copyright-Wendie-Donabie-CROPPED-300x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3799-Waterlilies-on-Wooden-Paddle-Acrylic-on-Wood-9-x-52-inches-Copyright-Wendie-Donabie-CROPPED-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3799-Waterlilies-on-Wooden-Paddle-Acrylic-on-Wood-9-x-52-inches-Copyright-Wendie-Donabie-CROPPED.jpg 569w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I envy you, water lily<\/p>\n<p>quietly floating along the shallow shore.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your pearly white petals open<\/p>\n<p>to welcome the day,<\/p>\n<p>sunlight bursting forth<\/p>\n<p>from your golden heart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like hands raised in varada mudra<\/p>\n<p>you spread kindness<\/p>\n<p>emanating the peace<\/p>\n<p>I so desperately seek.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Painting: Waterlilies painted on canoe paddle, Copyright Wendie Donabie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I envy you, water lily quietly floating along the shallow shore. &nbsp; Your pearly white petals open to welcome the day, sunlight bursting forth from your golden heart. &nbsp; Like hands raised in varada mudra you spread kindness emanating the peace I so desperately&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[4913],"class_list":["post-106704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","tag-waterlilies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106704","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\/1411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106704"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145564,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106704\/revisions\/145564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}