{"id":107760,"date":"2022-06-25T10:49:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107760"},"modified":"2022-06-25T10:56:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:56:40","slug":"miles-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/miles-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Miles to Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miles to Go Before I Sleep<\/p>\n<p>Taken from Robert Frost \u00a0\u00a0Stopping By \u00a0the Woods<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Focused on my journey and perpetual need for rest.<\/p>\n<p>What wonders have I missed<\/p>\n<p>blinded to all I perceive as ordinary?<\/p>\n<p>What whisper of harness bells<\/p>\n<p>sent through morning bird song<\/p>\n<p>to refresh the spirit<\/p>\n<p>have gone unheard<\/p>\n<p>in the cacophony of the day?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The journey\u201ds end,<\/p>\n<p>which cannot be known,<\/p>\n<p>exhorts my mind to penetrate<\/p>\n<p>the rocky mountain before me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But\u2026in this season of my life,<\/p>\n<p>moving at a slower pace,<\/p>\n<p>\u201calong the way\u201d \u00a0treasures<\/p>\n<p>are calling my name.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201dLook over here.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been waiting for you.<\/p>\n<p>Stop for \u00a0a while.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And so I paraphrase Robert Frost with this\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>miles to LIVE before I sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Miles to LIVE<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miles to Go Before I Sleep Taken from Robert Frost \u00a0\u00a0Stopping By \u00a0the Woods &nbsp; Focused on my journey and perpetual need for rest. What wonders have I missed blinded to all I perceive as ordinary? What whisper of harness bells sent through morning bird&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107760","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\/4293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108107,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107760\/revisions\/108107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}