{"id":108665,"date":"2022-06-25T11:42:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=108665"},"modified":"2022-06-25T11:48:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T15:48:29","slug":"prompt-3-the-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/prompt-3-the-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 3 &#8211; The Smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hour 3 &#8211; The Smile<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>he stood listening to the beautiful music<\/p>\n<p>played by Cello&#8217;s in the Park<\/p>\n<p>With the crowd clapping and swaying in time,<\/p>\n<p>he smiled at the woman passing by.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>smiling back, she extends her arm<\/p>\n<p>shy, he mouths &#8220;I&#8217;m no dancer&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;follow me and keep smiling&#8221; she says<\/p>\n<p>1234, off they go in hold to the joyful beat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The crowd clap, sway and cheer for the dancers<\/p>\n<p>he forgets about everything, caught in the moment<\/p>\n<p>a hop, a skip, a twirl, her dress extends fully<\/p>\n<p>her perfectly extended arm folds, rejoining the hold<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Cello&#8217;s slow the piece down, then stop,<\/p>\n<p>he smiles, she laughs as they separate and bow<\/p>\n<p>the applauding audience wants more<\/p>\n<p>as she walks away, looking back, he still smiles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour 3 &#8211; The Smile &nbsp; he stood listening to the beautiful music played by Cello&#8217;s in the Park With the crowd clapping and swaying in time, he smiled at the woman passing by. &nbsp; smiling back, she extends her arm shy, he mouths &#8220;I&#8217;m&#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-108665","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\/108665","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=108665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108958,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108665\/revisions\/108958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}