{"id":115432,"date":"2022-06-25T19:27:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=115432"},"modified":"2022-06-25T19:27:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:27:52","slug":"hour-11-laughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-11-laughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 11: Laughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to chase it<\/p>\n<p>venturing into the world<\/p>\n<p>night after night<\/p>\n<p>like a child with a jar<\/p>\n<p>hunting for fireflies<\/p>\n<p>flitting through high grass<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From a stage<\/p>\n<p>I did my best to sneak up<\/p>\n<p>with surprise,<\/p>\n<p>to lure it out<\/p>\n<p>of hiding places<\/p>\n<p>burrowed deep in the chest\u2014<\/p>\n<p>sometimes it sleeps<\/p>\n<p>at the back of the throat<\/p>\n<p>or nestled in the stray hairs<\/p>\n<p>of the nasal cavity<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not easy to coax it out,<\/p>\n<p>that takes skill.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t capture it,<\/p>\n<p>but, if you\u2019re lucky<\/p>\n<p>you can catch a room full of it<\/p>\n<p>and it\u2019s beautiful to behold<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to chase it venturing into the world night after night like a child with a jar hunting for fireflies flitting through high grass &nbsp; From a stage I did my best to sneak up with surprise, to lure it out of hiding places&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4428,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115432","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\/4428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115441,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115432\/revisions\/115441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}