{"id":110807,"date":"2022-06-25T14:01:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T18:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=110807"},"modified":"2022-06-26T08:35:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T12:35:13","slug":"way-of-the-crown-5th-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/way-of-the-crown-5th-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Way of the Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever felt the tender kiss of a <strong>sunflower<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Her scent forever bound to remember<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s soft petals rubbing against your cheek<\/p>\n<p>Swaying to the lyrics in the wind like old lovers<\/p>\n<p>As it were, alone in a field of dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Every whisper, every touch chronicled in your <strong>hardback<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Old wine in old wine skin I would never pass.<\/p>\n<p>A rich elixir swirling in a <strong>wine glass<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A wealth beyond kingdoms promised with every sip<\/p>\n<p>O permit my being a journey through <strong>space<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Power beckons at the very tip<\/p>\n<p>This world indeed I sure must take.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What about that old timer?<\/p>\n<p>Once fabled to have traveled the world hopping on one foot<\/p>\n<p><strong>Knitting<\/strong> a web of tales for his journey to suit<\/p>\n<p>Pray tell, what I must expect on my journey around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From his <strong>satchel<\/strong> unbound echoed words so profound<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the world it is you must go around<\/p>\n<p>Then the kiss from a sunflower must surely be found<\/p>\n<p>Never forgetting the tales from towns in the clouds<\/p>\n<p>Then riches from the old wine skin might just lead you to the crown&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever felt the tender kiss of a sunflower? Her scent forever bound to remember It&#8217;s soft petals rubbing against your cheek Swaying to the lyrics in the wind like old lovers As it were, alone in a field of dreams. Every whisper, every touch chronicled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110807","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\/4758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110899,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110807\/revisions\/110899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}