{"id":107040,"date":"2022-06-25T09:39:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107040"},"modified":"2022-06-26T10:48:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T14:48:30","slug":"learning-to-float-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/learning-to-float-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Float\/ Hour 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

Inhale deep, lean back<\/span><\/p>\n

Lapping water clogs my ears<\/span><\/p>\n

Lift legs from slippery lake floor<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Father\u2019s hands hover<\/span><\/p>\n

a cradle beneath me<\/span><\/p>\n

Enveloped in water<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Tilt chin to blue sky\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

arms spreads wide, a water angel<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI won\u2019t let you go.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He does let me go<\/span><\/p>\n

The buoyant force of water<\/span><\/p>\n

Pushes against me<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0I do not sink<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Inhale deep, lean back Lapping water clogs my ears Lift legs from slippery lake floor   Father\u2019s hands hover a cradle beneath me Enveloped in water   Tilt chin to blue sky\u00a0 arms spreads wide, a water angel \u201cI won\u2019t let you go.\u201d  …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107040","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\/1194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107040"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123200,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107040\/revisions\/123200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}