{"id":108247,"date":"2022-06-25T22:25:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T02:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=108247"},"modified":"2022-06-26T10:45:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T14:45:03","slug":"magical-moment-hour-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/magical-moment-hour-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Magical Moment &#8211; Hour 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-108285\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3787-Lone-Loon-Giclee-Print-Copyright-Wendie-Donabie-HIGH-RES-Copy-300x103.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3787-Lone-Loon-Giclee-Print-Copyright-Wendie-Donabie-HIGH-RES-Copy-300x103.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3787-Lone-Loon-Giclee-Print-Copyright-Wendie-Donabie-HIGH-RES-Copy-768x265.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3787-Lone-Loon-Giclee-Print-Copyright-Wendie-Donabie-HIGH-RES-Copy.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I heard your call before you appeared<\/p>\n<p>mystical bird of the north.<\/p>\n<p>Your haunting, plaintive song<\/p>\n<p>echoed across the still lake.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Striking a regal pose, head held high,<\/p>\n<p>in formal black and white attire,<\/p>\n<p>your doppelg\u00e4nger perfectly reflected in the water.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You called again, and your mate arrived<\/p>\n<p>Together you dove for dinner<\/p>\n<p>and I waited \u2026 and waited \u2026 and waited \u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At last, you broke the surface &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>right in front of me.<\/p>\n<p>Your intense red eyes met my curious green ones<\/p>\n<p>for a magical moment we connected.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>IMAGE: painting copyright Wendie Donabie<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard your call before you appeared mystical bird of the north. Your haunting, plaintive song echoed across the still lake. &nbsp; Striking a regal pose, head held high, in formal black and white attire, your doppelg\u00e4nger perfectly reflected in the water. &nbsp; You called&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108247","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\/1411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108247"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124907,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108247\/revisions\/124907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}