{"id":116591,"date":"2022-06-25T21:12:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T01:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=116591"},"modified":"2022-06-25T21:12:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T01:12:21","slug":"a-different-kind-of-muse-hour-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/a-different-kind-of-muse-hour-12\/","title":{"rendered":"A Different Kind of Muse (Hour 12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The muse is the sound of the drums,<br \/>\nthe reflection of the paintings on the walls,<br \/>\nthe monotones of the sculptures on the tables.<\/p>\n<p>The muse is the art that screams in hushed voices<br \/>\naround the podium of expressions,<br \/>\nthe voice of the rehearsing wordsmith,<br \/>\nthe blank sheets, paper balls, and dripping pens.<\/p>\n<p>The muse is the narrative pictures hanging below the roof,<br \/>\nthe racing faces of told and untold stories,<br \/>\ncompressed memories trapped on canvases.<\/p>\n<p>The muse is the quiet of the telling streets,<br \/>\nthe deliberating greenery of the valley,<br \/>\nthe affectionate caresses of the leaves,<br \/>\nand the whispers of words through expanding stomata.<\/p>\n<p>The muse is the thought never expressed,<br \/>\nthe rioting words never written,<br \/>\nthe stifled idea never manifested.<\/p>\n<p>The muse is the fullness of them all,<br \/>\nin constant motion like an ocean<br \/>\nwhose depths never ends and whose content never dries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The muse is the sound of the drums, the reflection of the paintings on the walls, the monotones of the sculptures on the tables. The muse is the art that screams in hushed voices around the podium of expressions, the voice of the rehearsing wordsmith,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1389,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116591","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\/1389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116720,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116591\/revisions\/116720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}