{"id":118140,"date":"2022-06-25T23:58:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T03:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=118140"},"modified":"2022-06-25T23:58:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T03:58:28","slug":"hour-15-this-is-the-golden-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-15-this-is-the-golden-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 15: This is the Golden Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would gladly,<\/p>\n<p>hungrily<\/p>\n<p>press the fast forward button<\/p>\n<p>on this leg of my transition<\/p>\n<p>skipping over the recurring<\/p>\n<p>and highly visible marks<\/p>\n<p>of this second round of puberty\u2014<\/p>\n<p>albeit voluntary<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m thirsty for the vision<\/p>\n<p>of future me<\/p>\n<p>having already<\/p>\n<p>respected the process<\/p>\n<p>looking back on now<\/p>\n<p>with kind nostalgia<\/p>\n<p>and limitless perspective<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And If I managed to enter some deep sleep,<\/p>\n<p>drooling my way through the next year or two,<\/p>\n<p>I would be missing out on the ripe juiciness<\/p>\n<p>of this singular moment and the discoveries<\/p>\n<p>that I get to make every day<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I chose this road<\/p>\n<p>I trust this road<\/p>\n<p>I love this road<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Respect<\/p>\n<p>Process<\/p>\n<p>Respect<\/p>\n<p>Process<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With presence,<\/p>\n<p>I find joy in the floating,<\/p>\n<p>the lily pads of euphoria<\/p>\n<p>when the pieces come together harmoniously,<\/p>\n<p>when the shining trans gods are smiling upon me<\/p>\n<p>and everything is golden<\/p>\n<p>I drink deeply<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would gladly, hungrily press the fast forward button on this leg of my transition skipping over the recurring and highly visible marks of this second round of puberty\u2014 albeit voluntary &nbsp; I\u2019m thirsty for the vision of future me having already respected the process&#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-118140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118140","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=118140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118142,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118140\/revisions\/118142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}