{"id":107871,"date":"2022-06-25T10:43:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107871"},"modified":"2022-06-25T10:43:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:43:40","slug":"hour-2-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-2-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 2 &#8211; Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Choices<\/p>\n<p><em>(My opening line is from Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Between the woods and frozen lake<\/p>\n<p>neither path I wish to take,<\/p>\n<p>For survival I must choose one<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll wait for the arrival of the sun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The sun rises, my path still not clear<\/p>\n<p>no steps taken, I&#8217;m shaking with fear<\/p>\n<p>The lakes surface covered with Ice and Snow<\/p>\n<p>however, the strength of it I do not know.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The trees in the woods whisper &#8220;come, This way&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>beautiful in appearance, can i trust what i hear them say?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll close my eyes and slowly breathe in<\/p>\n<p>how did i get here, how did it begin?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Between the woods and frozen lake<\/p>\n<p>which path should I take?<\/p>\n<p>should I open my eyes and let out a scream?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe i&#8217;ll waken, hoping it was a dream<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choices (My opening line is from Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost) &nbsp; Between the woods and frozen lake neither path I wish to take, For survival I must choose one I&#8217;ll wait for the arrival of the sun. &nbsp; The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,2114,1136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107871","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\/1682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108000,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107871\/revisions\/108000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}