{"id":107197,"date":"2022-06-25T09:54:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107197"},"modified":"2022-06-29T14:31:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T18:31:40","slug":"hour-one-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-one-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Out in the Rain (Hour 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must have been six or so<br \/>\nwhen, unsoiled yet by the world&#8217;s many worries,<br \/>\nI played in the rain, naked and wild<\/p>\n<p>with children my age or more or less<br \/>\nchasing termite alates freshly<br \/>\nunleashed from their colonies<\/p>\n<p>we ran around in the rain<br \/>\nchanting in our native tongue<br \/>\npraying the rain to bring us bounties<\/p>\n<p>a group of termites would fly over our<br \/>\nheads, lazily, yet beyond the reach<br \/>\nof our tiny limbs<\/p>\n<p>we would wait, patiently, raindrops<br \/>\ndripping down our little bodies, knowing<br \/>\nit&#8217;s only a matter of time before<\/p>\n<p>these elusive termites would lose grip and land,<br \/>\nlose their wings and become easy<br \/>\npick into our waiting bowls<\/p>\n<p>the rain would continue to splatter<br \/>\naway as we return home with our catch<br \/>\nour outside refreshed, our insides hopeful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must have been six or so when, unsoiled yet by the world&#8217;s many worries, I played in the rain, naked and wild with children my age or more or less chasing termite alates freshly unleashed from their colonies we ran around in the rain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2685,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107197","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\/2685"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107197"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124336,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107197\/revisions\/124336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}