{"id":106744,"date":"2022-06-25T09:39:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=106744"},"modified":"2022-06-25T10:07:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:07:27","slug":"the-tide-poetry-marathon-2022-hour-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-tide-poetry-marathon-2022-hour-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tide (Poetry Marathon 2022 Hour 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tide (2022 Hour 1)<\/p>\n<p>We spent too much time<br \/>\nSitting on the beach<br \/>\nSoaking in the sun<br \/>\nSprayed by salt<br \/>\nAs the waves licked the shore<br \/>\nMore a bay than an ocean<br \/>\nLarge enough for the tides<br \/>\nTo be controlled by the moon<br \/>\nAnd swept by the wind<br \/>\nThe water ripped back<br \/>\nAs it needed some place to go<br \/>\nThe seagulls dove<br \/>\nPicked the clams<br \/>\nAnd dropped them onto the mud<br \/>\nHoping to crack them open<br \/>\nA few blocks from the beach<br \/>\nThe heat overwhelmed<br \/>\nHere the sea breeze<br \/>\nCooled us<br \/>\nWe didn&#8217;t have<br \/>\nAn air conditioner in our apartment<br \/>\nSo we borrowed the breeze from the sea<br \/>\nMore a bay than a sea<br \/>\nYet large enough<br \/>\nFor the moon to control the tides<br \/>\nAnd the wind to blow the salt<br \/>\nAnd the sun to evaporate the water<br \/>\nI turned to my side<br \/>\nAnd asked you<br \/>\nIf you wanted to join me for a swim<br \/>\nWe both swam very well<br \/>\nThose days<br \/>\nWhen our apartment<br \/>\nHad no air conditioning<br \/>\nAnd we used the sea breeze<br \/>\nTo cool us<br \/>\nAnd we used the sun to warm us<br \/>\nThe sound of the white noise of the waves<br \/>\nDrowned out the random sounds around us<br \/>\nIt didn\u2019t matter how crowded it was<br \/>\nWe could hold unto each other<br \/>\nAs the sun set <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tide (2022 Hour 1) We spent too much time Sitting on the beach Soaking in the sun Sprayed by salt As the waves licked the shore More a bay than an ocean Large enough for the tides To be controlled by the moon And swept&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2879,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4930],"class_list":["post-106744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-2022-hour-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106744","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\/2879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107107,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106744\/revisions\/107107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}