{"id":115777,"date":"2022-06-25T20:20:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=115777"},"modified":"2022-06-25T20:25:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:25:57","slug":"gatherings-prompt-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/gatherings-prompt-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Gatherings \/ Prompt #12"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Whether I was a child or the sage adult I grew to be,\r\nsummer always brought\r\nsummer camp with hikes, dances, competitions, long evenings of songs and secrets \r\ndaily bus rides with bumps and jolts and everyone piling on then scrambling off\r\nball games with hot dogs, a trusted mitt nearby for that foul ball, waves among the crowd\r\n\r\nBustling and jostling against others were part of life.\r\nNow I cherish calm rituals with a few loved ones, \r\neven as we slowly emerge from behind our masks.\r\nI have changed, content with my smaller yet deeper world\r\nstill connected with others when I see them with softer eyes. \r\n\r\nSummer is beautiful, but it has transformed for me.\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether I was a child or the sage adult I grew to be, summer always brought summer camp with hikes, dances, competitions, long evenings of songs and secrets daily bus rides with bumps and jolts and everyone piling on then scrambling off ball games with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115777","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\/1019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116030,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115777\/revisions\/116030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}