{"id":112432,"date":"2022-06-25T15:50:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=112432"},"modified":"2022-06-25T15:50:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:50:33","slug":"bright-college-years-hour-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/bright-college-years-hour-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright College Years (Hour 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They file into an auditorium, a sea of black<br \/>\nChattering lightly, but not too much<br \/>\nA solemn excitement in the air<\/p>\n<p>School insignia adorns the walls<br \/>\nOn the stage, many of their mentors stand<br \/>\nTeachers of yesterday; today, just here to celebrate<\/p>\n<p>The orchestra begins, a tune they\u2019ve heard<br \/>\nSeveral times since they first entered these doors<br \/>\nThe tune is the same, but so much else has changed <\/p>\n<p>Standing at the threshold of child and adult<br \/>\nThey look forward with nervousness and anxiety<br \/>\nBut then they look back, and smile at how far they have come <\/p>\n<p>As they take their diplomas, their handshakes are firm<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the end of an era, but the beginning of summer<br \/>\nOf several more summers, new phases of life <\/p>\n<p>They changed once, they will change again<br \/>\nGrowing stronger, standing taller, with each turn <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They file into an auditorium, a sea of black Chattering lightly, but not too much A solemn excitement in the air School insignia adorns the walls On the stage, many of their mentors stand Teachers of yesterday; today, just here to celebrate The orchestra begins,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112432","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\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112438,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112432\/revisions\/112438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}