{"id":110399,"date":"2022-06-25T13:31:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=110399"},"modified":"2022-06-25T13:31:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:31:15","slug":"hour-5-the-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-5-the-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 5: The Window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Through the window of wilted dreams,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have often jumped in poetic streams<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Out my father\u2019s house and into his bookshelf<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A little elf, outgrowing\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The tiny window\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Its light still seeps in,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But doesn\u2019t shine on all of me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2018Consider yourself free\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every words, on every page screams\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And I am blinded, because some pages are wilting\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tilting their head\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In approval and disdain<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adding to my heel, each word makes me taller<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ledge seems smaller<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Small enough to jump<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And this time I don\u2019t bump,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Into a shelf, a book or a word,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I have unearthed my roots. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Through the window of wilted dreams,\u00a0 I have often jumped in poetic streams Out my father\u2019s house and into his bookshelf A little elf, outgrowing\u00a0 The tiny window\u00a0 Its light still seeps in,\u00a0 But doesn\u2019t shine on all of me \u2018Consider yourself free\u2019 Every&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":930,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110399","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\/930"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110419,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110399\/revisions\/110419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}